NPA spec now available via anonymous FTP (and email)

Brad Clements <bkc@omnigate.clarkson.edu> Fri, 31 July 1992 00:03 UTC

Message-Id: <9207302342.AA05392@inet-gw-1.pa.dec.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 19:38:48 -0400
From: Brad Clements <bkc@omnigate.clarkson.edu>
To: print-wg@pa.dec.com
Subject: NPA spec now available via anonymous FTP (and email)

Thanks to Don at Lexmark, the NPA spec is now available via anonymous
ftp from

	barnacle.erc.clarkson.edu  (128.153.28.12)
	pub/ietf/print-wg/npa-l1rd.exe

This is a self-extracting DOS executable. Download to a PC in binary mode
and execute it to produce PostScript text for your PS printer.

The .exe file is a little over 1 megabyte in size.

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For email, send a message to archive-server@sun.soe.clarkson.edu

	send ietf/print-wg/npa-l1rd.exe

for packing and encoding choices, send a help message instead.

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The following comment is from Don, and I think its important for others
to read this before getting the spec. My objective in introducing the spec
to this group is to use it as a sample of the types of management/control
information that a printing protocol may want to deal with in the future.

I haven't seen the spec yet myself, so I'm shooting `from the hip'.

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Date: Thu, 30 Jul 92 17:24:52 EST
From: "Don Wright                (606)232-4808       " <don@lexmark.com>
To: bkc@omnigate.clarkson.edu
Subject: ftp drop off for NPA


You and everyone else should understand that the purpose of the NPA
document is provide a link independent protocol for hosts to talk to
printers.  It must run on a parallel port, RS-232, Ethernet, etc. and
should not be tied to a high level component in the protocol stack; i.e.
it could be encapsulated in the NetBios, IPX/SPX, TCP, etc.  In addition
it is designed for ease of implementation in a resource poor device like
a printer.  That is why data is generally bit/byte encoded; parsing
English or other human languages is too complex for a device like
a printer.

Have fun!

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