Win32 LPR/LPRM/LPQ Angus Duggan $Date: 2000/08/31 22:09:33 $
This archive contains clients for Berkeley lpd daemons, to allow printing from
Win32 (Windows NT/Windows95) machines to lpd-hosted printers on a network.
The programs implement RFC 1179 clients.
They have been compiled under Windows NT 4.0
FILES
The files contained are:
-r--r--r-- 1 angus None 1310 Oct 23 1999 LICENSE
-r--r--r-- 1 angus None 2650 Aug 31 15:05 README
-r--r--r-- 1 angus None 12894 Aug 31 15:05 common.c
-r--r--r-- 1 angus None 1433 Aug 31 15:05 common.h
-r--r--r-- 1 angus None 2260 Aug 31 15:05 lpq.c
-rwxr-xr-x 1 angus None 52736 Aug 31 14:58 lpq.exe
-r--r--r-- 1 angus None 9132 Oct 23 1999 lpr.c
-rwxr-xr-x 1 angus None 67584 Aug 31 14:58 lpr.exe
-r--r--r-- 1 angus None 2361 Aug 31 15:05 lprm.c
-rwxr-xr-x 1 angus None 52736 Aug 31 14:58 lprm.exe
-r--r--r-- 1 angus None 964 Oct 23 1999 makefile
The makefile is for Visual C++, but will probably work for other
compilers.
INSTALLATION
Copy lpr.exe, lpq.exe, and lprm.exe into a directory on your PATH.
Alternatively, recompile with your favourite compiler and install those
executables.
REGISTRY
These programs use the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\FreeWare\Lpr
to store the sequence number for LPR, and printer to host associations. If you
want to add a new association (which will allow you to print with
"lpr -Pprinter" instead of the full specification "lpr -Pprinter@host"), add a
value "printer" to that key, with the host as a string type value (REG_SZ or
REG_EXPAND_SZ). The environment variables PRINTER and PRINTHOST supply the
default printer and lpd host respectively. If just PRINTER is specified, the
default host will be looked up in the registry.
COPYING
See the file LICENSE for details.
BUGS
Bug fixes and suggestions to angus@harlequin.com
UPDATES
The definitive archive sites for these lpd clients updates are
ftp.dcs.ed.ac.uk in the directory pub/ajcd/, and ftp.tardis.ed.ac.uk, in the
directory users/ajcd. The latest version will be in win32lpr.zip.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Thanks to the following people for bugs reports and suggestions:
Arnon Kanfi
Philippe Simard
NEWS
First (unnumbered) release 14/10/96
Bugfixes for send return values and lpr default printer host 13/4/98
Bugfixes for socket options, LPRng -Z options, host support 20/9/1999
Bugfix for lprm to keep socket open, 31/8/2000
Wrapped on 2nd October 1998 by angus@harlequin.com