lp: SysV/BSD interoperability

Tai Jin tai at hptsug2.HP.COM
Sat Sep 24 08:53:24 AEST 1988


In article <160 at leibniz.UUCP> tpc at leibniz.UUCP (Tom Chmara) writes:
|We have a number of different workstations around here.  I'm having trouble
|trying to get the HP workstations (which use the AT&T System V spooling
|facilities) to be able to use the SUN file server's printer (SUN uses the
|Berkeley spooling facility).
|Any chance to get one to recognize/work with the other?  Am I destined to
|have to port the Berkeley stuff to the HP environment or vice-versa?
|	Please advise...
|		---tpc---

In HP-UX 6.2 and 2.0 the rlp spooler is compatible with the BSD
spooler but uses SYS V models, etc.  You should be able to use it to
send and accept print requests to and from other BSD spoolers.

...tai



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