On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, Patrick Powell wrote:

> > If you're looking for something to do Patrick :)  there have been
> > murmurings about why printer daemons NEED port 515 open when a Unix
> > socket could do the trick as well.  Obviously if the local printer
> > is used by remote clients it is needed and this change would mean
> > a non-standard extension but it shouldn't be that hard I suspect.
> Originally this was the way that it was done.  You ALWAYS ran a
> server on your local machine,  and then you would connect to a UNIX
> socket.  The server was the one that did the network stuff.  And
> then people decided that they wanted lightweight spooling - i.e.
> - no server on the localhost.


perhaps I'm too dense but could you point me to some readings that
specify exactly what the client and server pieces do.  I havent read
rfc1179 - and was hoping to avoid that.  But I'm still not clear on which
tasks the client does --


-- 
David Bear
College of Public Programs/ASU
480-965-8257
...the way is like water, going where nobody wants it to go


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