Re: Requirements for a network printing environment (long?)
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From: lumm@spot.cc.lehigh.edu
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Subject: Re: Requirements for a network printing environment (long?)
To: Brad Clements <bkc@murkworks.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 14:06:28 -0400
Cc: print-wg@pa.dec.com
In-Reply-To: <9207241505.AA03867@murkworks.com>; from "Brad Clements" at Jul 24, 92 11:05 am
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> > So, for as much as I think the `big plan' sounds good, I'd like to see everyone > keep the above comments in mind when proposing or designing a spec that will > hopefully solve all our problems (and make you famous to boot). > > These are my comments, what are yours? > > -brad > Brad, We here at Lehigh also have a simple "SMTP like protocol" for printing that we have been using for the years. Interestingly, it was initially viewed as a interim thing to hold us over until a standard was deleveloped, but... Here's a blurb on it, we have versions for Unix, VMS, VM, DOS, and NOS/VE. Available from ftp.Lehigh.EDU. Simple, but expandable. Perhaps not the best solution for a complete standard, but it is simple enough for small machines. mark ----- SQTP is used at Lehigh University for transfering I/O files between heterogeneous operating systems. SQTP consists of servers for NOS/VE, VM, VMS and Unix, and clients for these operating systems as well. The U*X clients are externalized as commands OP and OQ for printing output files and viewing the output queues, and IP and IQ for submitting input jobs to remote machines and getting the output back and viewing the input queue. To install SQTP/Unix, read the makefile. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mark Miller Network Analyst lumm@Lehigh.EDU Lehigh University Computing Center lumm@spot.CC.Lehigh.EDU Bethlehem, PA 18015 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------