Subject: ANNOUNCE: "RPS" -- perl4/5 lpd gateway
From: [email-masked] (Travis L Priest)
Date: 12 Jun 1995 22:15:42 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl.announce,comp.lang.perl.misc,comp.lang.perl

We call this the "Remote Printing Service," but it's essentially the
4.3 BSD line printer daemon implemented in perl.  RPS acts as a
gateway, accepting client connections from any lpr client, converting
files to postscript (via Transcript or other filters), and delivering
those jobs to remote AppleTalk (via CAP), BSD, or network-attached
(ftp) printers.  This is done without maintaining printcap files.

This code was originally written to support internal operations, but I
recently received approval to distribute it.  As such, please consider
it BETA code and expect to spend a little time fine-tuning it to your
system.  You can view introductory documenation on the Web at
http://ice-www.larc.nasa.gov/ICE/doc/rps/, and you can obtain the
source from http://www.larc.nasa.gov/LSS/ABSTRACT/LSS-1995-0017.html
(pardon the 'metrics' interface).

Travis