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From: "Paul" <p.glick@home.com>
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Subject: [9fans] lp
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 00:16:48 -0500
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lp was first written for 8th Edition Unix and was ported to Plan 9.

FIFO doesn't seem like such a good idea when printers are expensive and slow
and there is a mix of jobs queued (long and short).  There used to be other
schedulers.

lp was first written to handle Imagen printers and a hand rolled printer
that we had at the Labs designed by Tom Killian using Canon print engines.

The lpdaemon and lpdsend commands accept and deliver lpd/lpr protocol,
respectively.
Lpdaemon sniffs the input for 'lp' or 'lpr' style jobs.

A replacement for lp would be a good idea.  I thought about it for a long
time.  Hopefully there is a fool out there willing to take on the task.
I'll provide all the help I can give.

By the way, I retired from Lucent/Bell Labs in July and I am also looking
for work.

    Paul Glick