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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!como.dpie.gov.au!news.gan.net.au!act.news.telstra.net!vic.news.telstra.net!sleipnir.iaccess.com.au!news.unimelb.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news-peer.sprintlink.net!Sprint!news-east.sprintlink.net!news-dc-26.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-dc-9.sprintlink.net!news.crd.ge.com!rebecca!rpi!usenet From: Garance A Drosehn <gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Providing updates for lpd/lpr/etc Date: 8 May 1997 20:00:18 GMT Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA Lines: 34 Message-ID: <5ktbci$odk@usenet.rpi.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: mlor.its.rpi.edu X-Newsreader: Alexandra.app (Version 0.82) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:40597 Hello All. Here at RPI we have a large number of unix workstations, which are running operating systems such as SunOS, Solaris, AIX, and IRIX. For many years we've been some bsd-flavored lpr suite of unknown origin for printing support on those workstations. This year I've been thinking that it would be nice to get rid of the "of unknown origin" part of that description. I looked at the lpr suites that come from NetBSD, FreeBSD, and OpenBSD. What we're using at RPI is pretty similar to all of them, but each of them has a few extra changes that seem (to me) to be useful. While I haven't done anything with FreeBSD itself yet, there are a few others on campus who are using it and are happy with it. So, here's what I'd like to do. I'd like to start with the FreeBSD sources, and generate updates to it based on changes we have here at RPI and from the other lpr suites, and then get those folded back into FreeBSD. Note that while we run lpr in a production environment on hundreds of workstations, none of the ones *I* work on are FreeBSD-based (well, not yet, at least). So, what is the best way I could contribute some changes to the FreeBSD tree? As just one for-instance, I've started by slowly updating the RPI lpr suite to look more like the current FreeBSD version, and in doing so I've found two bugs in FreeBSD's version. One is a parsing problem with the '-#' parameter on lpr, and the other is a cosmetic oversight with the output of the status command in lpc. Who should I contact about these and other lpr-related issues? --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer (MIME & NeXTmail capable) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA