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- lpr, lpq, lprm - TCP/IP printing to remote hosts.
-
- Author: Eric Brown (C) 1992
- internet: ebrown@tap.kodak.com
- compuserve: 71214,1006
-
- 8 November 1992
- Release 1.0 lpr, lpq, lprm
-
-
- DOCUMENTATION:
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- Almost all standard unix options are support except the '+' lpq option.
- See the respective UNIX man pages for documentation. Differences and
- required environment variables are listed below.
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- ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES:
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- SERVER - Name or IP address of remote computer
- PRINTER - Name of printer on remote computer
- TEMP - Directory for temporary files and sequence file
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- ADDITIONAL OPTIONS:
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- -Sserver - To manually specify name of server
- -u - (for lpr only) Strip file of lines that start with ^D.
- This option is to aid printing Windows PostScript files.
-
- OTHER PROGRAMS:
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- For printing standard text files, I recomend picking up a copy of nenscrpt
- which I also ported to NT. It does a nice job of formatting text for Post-
- Script printers. It supports 2up and nice headers.
-
- IMPLEMENTATION:
-
- I got most of my information for these programs from _UNIX_Network_Prog-
- ramming_ by W. Richard Stevens and from looking over the NCSA lpr programs
- written by Paul Hilchey. The UNIX man pages helped a bit too.
-
- I hope this is an ok example of how to use the Windows Socket API. These
- programs are all Windows NT Win32 console apps. These were developed with
- the October beta release of Windows NT.
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- AREAS FOR IMPROVEMENT:
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- -Use Win32 file system routines. This allows for delete on close temporary
- files. According to the Win32 documentation, these files might also never
- get physically written to disk - a speed improvement.
- -lpr could be structured better. Ideally, we should have a set of routines
- one could easily integrate into a windows version of lpr.
- -Support for a printcap file.
- -Support for dumping files/PostScript out a serial port or such via
- appropriate printcap entries.
- -Integrate with PrintManager (Use AddPort() - I haven't figured this out
- yet).
- -lpd??? Perhaps. That's streching it though. It would be nice if the Print-
- Manager was really extensible.
- -Drag and drop app. MS should do this with the PrintManager just for kicks.
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