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From: phil@tarragon.cs.swarthmore.edu (Phil Brandenberger)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.sys5.r4
Subject: Re: POSIX implementation of BSD's LPD available?
Date: 06 May 1994 04:11:06 GMT
Organization: Swarthmore College Computer Science, Swarthmore PA, USA.
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In-reply-to: patrick@athena.ERC.MsState.Edu's message of 06 May 1994 01:07:34 GMT

>>>>> On 06 May 1994 01:07:34 GMT, patrick@athena.ERC.MsState.Edu (Patrick Bridges) said:
In article <PATRICK.94May5200735@athena.ERC.MsState.Edu> patrick@athena.ERC.MsState.Edu (Patrick Bridges) writes:

PB> SGI's IRIX has the berkley print spooling stuff, as I recall.
PB> It is not installed by default, however.

PB> In both IRIX 4.X and 5.X it is installed from:

PB> eoe2.sw.bsdlpr			(The actual software) and
PB> eoe2.man.bsdlpr			(man pages)

PB> This includes lpr, lpd, lprm, and all the other essentials...

Make sure you get the security-fixed version from SGI.  This fixes the
get-root-through-.seq bug.  SGI will make an official announcement
soon... 

-Phil



					
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