Print Services for UNIX is the name currently given by
Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology corporation producing computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and related services headquartered at the Microsoft Redmond campus located in Redmond, Washin ...
to its support of the
Line Printer Daemon protocol
The Line Printer Daemon protocol/Line Printer Remote protocol (or LPD, LPR) is a network printing protocol for submitting print jobs to a remote printer. The original implementation of LPD was in the Berkeley printing system in the BSD UNIX oper ...
(also called LPR, LPD) on
Windows NT
Windows NT is a proprietary graphical operating system produced by Microsoft, the first version of which was released on July 27, 1993. It is a processor-independent, multiprocessing and multi-user operating system.
The first version of Win ...
-based systems. It is installed using the Add/Remove Programs control panel applet. This component allows LPD queues to be supported using the native Windows printing system. It does not provide the , , , or commands.
History
Under Windows NT 4.0 and earlier this component was listed as "Microsoft TCP/IP Printing".
See also
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Microsoft Windows Services for UNIX
Windows Services for UNIX (SFU) is a discontinued software package produced by Microsoft which provided a Unix environment on Windows NT and some of its immediate successor operating-systems.
SFU 1.0 and 2.0 used the MKS Toolkit; starting with ...
External links
Print from UNIX to WindowsHOW TO: Install and Configure Print Services for UNIX
mdash;Microsoft Product Knowledge Base
mdash;Commercial Software
Windows components
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