Subject: Re: Cannot print any longer
From: Carsten Neumann (deltor@snafu.de)
Date: Thu Apr 12 2001 - 16:27:31 EDT
On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Jonathan Paisley wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Carsten Neumann wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Jonathan Paisley wrote:
> > > You might be able to use the old papd binary in conjunction with the new
> > > afpd. That would solve the problem in the interim.
> >
> > No, not really. ;-)
> > I (mostly) don't want to print onto a spooler of my linux box,
> > but via the famous program "pap" from my linux box to an AppleTalk printer.
> > And the new papd seems to work, data from my Mac arrived on my linux box.
> > It's just the other way ... :-(
>
> Duh! Silly me. I should have read your original message more thoroughly.
> Sorry.
>
> Would it be foolish of me to ask if you've tried the pap from the old
> distro with the new one?
No, it wouldn't. ;-)
But I tried this, of course.
It cannot even lookup the NBP name, and since there is no way to circumvent this lookup
it fails before reading the status from the printer.
Regards
Carsten
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