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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Jetdirect via *BSD
Date: 14 Dec 1996 00:16:47 GMT
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nsayer@quack.kfu.com (Nick Sayer) wrote:

> HP Jetdirects are as varied as the printers they serve. One thing
> they all have in common, though, is that when they are given an IP
> address, they will listen for print jobs on port 9100, accepting
> one connection at a time.

Hmm, why don't you talk lpd protocol directly to them?  All the
JetDirect's i know of can do this.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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