Subject: Re: CVS commit: basesrc
To: Michael Eriksson <eramore@era-t.ericsson.se>
From: Hubert Feyrer <feyrer@rfhs8012.fh-regensburg.de>
List: source-changes
Date: 02/03/2000 13:17:02
On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Michael Eriksson wrote:
> What you added isn't correct. The HP printers want the sender to
> shutdown(2) its sending side, and then wait for the printer to close
> the connection when it's done printing. It sends error and status
> messages back on the TCP connection. If you just close the connection
> when you've sent the file, as lpr does, the printer will abort the
> job.
``works for me''
Please note also that this is no lpd protocol spoken over port 9100, but
instead the raw data is sent to it.
- Hubert
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