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Re: LPRng
- From: Pavel Tsekov <ptsekov at gmx dot net>
- To: Brian Gallew <geek at burri dot to>
- Cc: Cygwin Applications <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2002 16:32:49 +0100 (CET)
- Subject: Re: LPRng
Hello,
I think that LPRng was already ported to Cygwin, though not as an
official package. From what I remember Luke Bakken was the one who did
the porting. I think that at one point a binary package of LPRng for
Cygwin was on the ported software page (http://cygwin.com/ported.html),
but I've just checked and it is no longer there. You may find
it useful to search the cygwin mailing list archive for more info.
On Fri, 27 Dec 2002, Brian Gallew wrote:
> I would like to provide an LPRng package. This brings up a couple of
> points.
>
> 1) What should be done about the lpr.exe provided by cygutils?
> 2) Should I make LPRng dependent upon ifhp?
> 3) LPRng really wants to have its own userid to run under. Should I
> create one automatically (assuming that's even doable)? There is
> really a whole raft of sticky problems under here, especially since
> the userid is compiled in.
> 4) Should I build in SSL support? You can't really provide it as an
> add-on.
>
> Actually, 2-4 only matter if people want to use LPRng as a server.
> Truthfully, I'm not even sure that ifhp can handle the parallel port
> under cygwin.
>
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