The following message was received from the system administrator of the LRC DEC Alpha UNIX workstations regarding printing:
Subject: LRC Unix printing/plotting
Time: 8:35 AM
Date: 2/27/96
This semester, there have been numerous problems with Unix printing reported
to the LRC proctors and the LRC Unix system administrators. The LRC Unix
printing procedures implemented in September have not changed this semester
and are documented on our WWW page at
"http://www.ce.utexas.edu/docs/unix/Printing/Printing.html". Virtually every
printing problem that Laurie and I have been asked to look into this semester
has been the user's failure to follow the remote printing setup procedures
documented on our WWW page at
"http://www.ce.utexas.edu/docs/unix/Printing/PrintingSetup.html".
In response to these problems, I have written a shell script,
"check_printing", that is installed on all LRC Unix systems which (1)
verifies that the LRC Unix side of printing is setup properly for the user
and (2) tests the communication mechanism to the Computation Center Unix
systems using the user's Computation Center account. The message
"check_printing: remote printing setup is O.K." or an informative message
stating what is wrong and how the user should fix the problem is issued.
I am requesting that you inform all users to use the following sequence when
encountering a Unix printing problem: (1) the user execute check_printing and
resolve any problems noted, (2) the user ask the teaching assistant for help,
(3) the teaching assistant execute check_printing, resolve any problems
noted, and then ask the LRC proctor for help, and (4) the LRC proctor execute
check_printing, resolve any problems noted, and then ask the LRC Unix system
administrator for help.
Your cooperation is appreciated. Thanks!