The rlpr software facilitates remote printing to a local printer, simplifying the process and ensuring print jobs are completed efficiently.
The rlpr software is an innovative solution that enables you to print files from remote sites to your local printer with ease. The package includes BSD-compatible replacements for `lpr', `lpq', and `lprm', providing additional functionality compared to their BSD counterparts. The GPL'd programs in the rlpr package are lightweight, secure, and cleaner than their BSD equivalents.
Despite not being a complete replacement for BSD lpr, the rlpr package offers many benefits. You will still require `lptest', `lpc', and `lpd' for now, but you no longer need to run `lpd' locally to print to a remote printer. You can, however, replace `lpr', `lpq', and `lprm' with the backward compatible and GPL'd rlpr versions of these commands.
The rlpr versions of these commands are implemented using clean-room techniques and contain no proprietary source code. While the primary goal of the rlpr project was to produce simple and reliable remote printing software, the developer may consider developing `lpd', `lptest', and `lpc' in the future. This will require significant work as most of the printing subsystem's real work is done by `lpd'.
The rlpr source code is highly portable, and the software has been successfully patched to work in non-Unix POSIX.1 environments, such as MVS. However, the operating system's features and the development tools determine whether rlpr will build and operate correctly on a particular system.
The latest release of the rlpr software fixed several autoconf-related problems introduced in the previous version. Additionally, the update added support fallback to syslog() when vsyslog() is not available.
Despite not being a complete replacement for BSD lpr, the rlpr package offers many benefits. You will still require `lptest', `lpc', and `lpd' for now, but you no longer need to run `lpd' locally to print to a remote printer. You can, however, replace `lpr', `lpq', and `lprm' with the backward compatible and GPL'd rlpr versions of these commands.
The rlpr versions of these commands are implemented using clean-room techniques and contain no proprietary source code. While the primary goal of the rlpr project was to produce simple and reliable remote printing software, the developer may consider developing `lpd', `lptest', and `lpc' in the future. This will require significant work as most of the printing subsystem's real work is done by `lpd'.
The rlpr source code is highly portable, and the software has been successfully patched to work in non-Unix POSIX.1 environments, such as MVS. However, the operating system's features and the development tools determine whether rlpr will build and operate correctly on a particular system.
The latest release of the rlpr software fixed several autoconf-related problems introduced in the previous version. Additionally, the update added support fallback to syslog() when vsyslog() is not available.
What's New
Version 2.06: N/A