Re: Looking for advice on lpr/lpd changes

2000-05-17 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 4:56 PM -0400 5/11/00, Ted Buswell wrote: >I don't like the proposed idea (shell script mod of smb.conf) either, >however I was under the impression with your lpr mod you would also >bludgeon the user with 4*5*200 printer shares. > >I had thought that with your lpr mod, you still need to someho

Re: Looking for advice on lpr/lpd changes

2000-05-11 Thread Tim Vanderhoek
On Thu, May 11, 2000 at 04:43:25PM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > > Hmm. I always assumed that was for "big freebsd architectural > changes", as opposed to changes to a "little program" like lpr. I'd rather see a discussion about designing new features for lpr on -arch than I would see a dis

Re: Looking for advice on lpr/lpd changes

2000-05-11 Thread Bill Fumerola
On Wed, May 10, 2000 at 11:11:23PM -0600, Wes Peters wrote: > > I've asked that people with pccard pr's also cc me or send me > > numbers. This has helped somewhat, but I'd like an easier to deal > > with bug mechanism. > > Have we given up on Keystone, or is it still under consideration? I wo

Re: Looking for advice on lpr/lpd changes

2000-05-11 Thread Ted Buswell
Garance A Drosihn writes: > At 1:02 PM -0400 5/10/00, Ted Buswell wrote: > >Right now, you could write a shell script to create all of > >the various permutations of printer shares, each one with > >an appropriate "print command" directive in your smb.conf. > > We have >200 printers in pri

Re: Looking for advice on lpr/lpd changes

2000-05-11 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 12:14 PM -0400 5/10/00, Tim Vanderhoek wrote: >On Wed, May 10, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > > > > 1990's) with the extra features we've added. Once I have > > things sorted out, I'll have a number of updates to offer. > >Cool! > > > [...] > >If you are hoping to have a serious discussion, a care

Re: Looking for advice on lpr/lpd changes

2000-05-11 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 1:02 PM -0400 5/10/00, Ted Buswell wrote: >Right now, you could write a shell script to create all of >the various permutations of printer shares, each one with >an appropriate "print command" directive in your smb.conf. We have >200 printers in printcap, and each of those printers has at leas

Re: Looking for advice on lpr/lpd changes

2000-05-10 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wes Peters writes: : Have we given up on Keystone, or is it still under consideration? I'm still porting NetBSD's code. I've not had access to BSDi's pccard code, and don't plan to use it since I want to get NEWCARD working since no matter whose we chose it is a bi

Re: Looking for advice on lpr/lpd changes

2000-05-10 Thread Wes Peters
Warner Losh wrote: > > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tim Vanderhoek >writes: > : Finished patches are best sent via send-pr(1) where they will > : eventually be addressed (although the response-time for send-pr(1) is > : regrettably long...) > > I've asked that people with pccard pr's also cc

Re: Looking for advice on lpr/lpd changes

2000-05-10 Thread Tim Vanderhoek
On Wed, May 10, 2000 at 12:14:59PM -0400, Tim Vanderhoek wrote: > > > that will skip header pages or send them email. Does this seem > > like a reasonable idea, or should I approach this from another > > angle? > > If you are hoping to have a series discussion, a carefully written

Re: Looking for advice on lpr/lpd changes

2000-05-10 Thread Ted Buswell
Garance A Drosihn writes: > At 10:23 AM -0400 5/10/00, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > >I was thinking of having lpr understand options given in a > >printer name. Thus, for printer 'myptr', you could send to: > >lpr -Pmyptr(obviously...) > >lpr -Pmyptr-h > >lpr -Pmyptr-m >

Re: Looking for advice on lpr/lpd changes

2000-05-10 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tim Vanderhoek writes: : Finished patches are best sent via send-pr(1) where they will : eventually be addressed (although the response-time for send-pr(1) is : regrettably long...) I've asked that people with pccard pr's also cc me or send me numbers. This has hel

Re: Looking for advice on lpr/lpd changes

2000-05-10 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 10:23 AM -0400 5/10/00, Garance A Drosihn wrote: >I was thinking of having lpr understand options given in a >printer name. Thus, for printer 'myptr', you could send to: >lpr -Pmyptr(obviously...) >lpr -Pmyptr-h >lpr -Pmyptr-m >lpr -Pmyptr-mh or -Pmyptr-hm (both woul

Re: Looking for advice on lpr/lpd changes

2000-05-10 Thread Tim Vanderhoek
On Wed, May 10, 2000 at 10:23:24AM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > > 1990's) with the extra features we've added. Once I have things > sorted out, I'll have a number of updates to offer. Cool! > that will skip header pages or send them email. Does this seem > like a reasonable idea, or shoul

Looking for advice on lpr/lpd changes

2000-05-10 Thread Garance A Drosihn
Here at RPI, we picked up a snapshot of freebsd's lpr many years ago, and currently use that on our AIX, Solaris, and IRIX systems. One of my main goals this year is to merge freebsd's current lpr (which has changed a lot since the snapshot we took in the early 1990's) with the extra features we'v