From: rchen@fraser.sfu.ca (Robert Chen) Subject: Re: ghostview, part seventeen ;-) Date: 7 Nov 1992 19:59:17 GMT
In article <michaelw.721075126@mcshh.hanse.de> michaelw@mcshh.Hanse.DE (Michael Will) writes:
>No, not 17 yet, but...
>
>After successfully running ghostview and almost choking after displaying
>the tiger.ps - I have not seen such goody before ;-) - I tried to print,
>but it failed because ghostview seems to try to execute a programm called
>"lpr", which I have not.
>
>What is this, does it just dump to the printer, or does it more than that?
>
>Greetings, Michael Will
lpr is the print spooler from Berkeley. So far Linux lacks a half
decent print spooler in popular use. Right now a lot of people are
using the minix lp (lp is the name of the sysV spooler) which was
posted while back.
On porting lpr: I tried to port it from the BSD sources a while back.
At the time Linux lacked file locking, tcpip, and syslog. File
locking and tcpip are now here, and syslog will be in the next
libc. I hope lpr will then be a pretty easy port and can be uploaded
to tsx-11 and friends. If you are working on an lpr port, please
let me know.
- Ken