        PLP: Portable Line Printer Spooler system, release 4
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This software is based on PLP 2.0, by Patrick Powell of the Electrical and
Computer Engineering Dept., San Diego State University (papowell@sdsu.edu).
It is being distributed under his copyright. PLP is Copyright (c) 1988
Patrick Powell. It incorporates the Edinburgh University changes.

It's been ported to SunOS 4.1.x, Solaris 2.3, HP/UX 9, Linux, Ultrix
4.3, IRIX 4, IRIX 5.2, Dynix, Pyramid OSx 5.1 and 4.4 (a BSD 4.2
derivative), Apollo Domain/OS 10.3, ConvexOS 11.0, and many others.
It uses GNU autoconf, so it's (usually) pretty easy to port to
new platforms.

It's in constant use on SunOS 4.1.x and Solaris 2.x, so it will definitely
work there. It's also been checked for memory leaks and so on using Purify,
and has a full test suite.

Note that PLP is written in ANSI C, so if you do not have an ANSI
compiler available, you'll need to have Wietse Venema's "unproto"
installed, and you'll need to uncomment the UNPROTO line in the
Makefile.

Read the file ``FEATURES'' for details of PLP's features.
Read the file ``INSTALL'' for installation instructions.
Read the file ``doc/Compatibility'' for info on compatibility issues with PLP.

The _real_ PLP manual is in ``doc/PLP/manual.ps''. READ THIS DOCUMENT!!
Many of PLP's most useful features are not documented anywhere else!

Read the file ``LICENSE'' for redistribution conditions.
Read the file ``CHANGES'' for more info on what has been changed.

Users of older versions of PLP should read the ``doc/Compatibility'' file
for details of notable changes.

There's a neato-keen PLP icon in XPM format in ``doc/plp.xpm'', contributed
by Stefano Ianigro -- cheers!

The latest version of PLP is always available via anon. FTP from
the following sites:

	ftp://ftp.iona.ie/pub/plp		(main site, but slooow)
	ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/pub/utils/plp
	ftp://ftp.beckman.uiuc.edu/pub/plp
	ftp://ftp.zod.wau.nl/pub/mirror/plp
	ftp://ftp.lps.ens.fr/pub/software/plp
	ftp.uni-paderborn.de:/pub/unix/printer/plp

There's a mailing list for PLP users, patch announcements, and PLP
hacking: <plp@iona.ie>. Mail subscription requests (and so on) to
<plp-request@iona.ie>.

If you need help configuring PLP, try sending mail to <plp@iona.ie>,
and be sure to enclose some debugging output; run lpd and lpr,
etc. with -D5 or greater, and collect the relevant output from the
logfile or stderr. See section 11 of the manual for more details.

-- Justin Mason, November '94.

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CONTRIBUTORS (in approximate chronological order);
    Read the file CHANGES for more detailed information.

    Corey Minyard <minyard@wf-rch.cirr.com>
    Stuart Kemp <stuart@cs.jcu.edu.au>
    Angus Duggan <angus@harlequin.co.uk>
    Julian Turnbull <jst@dcs.edinburgh.ac.uk>
    Paul Haldane <Paul.Haldane@edinburgh.ac.uk>
    Michael Joosten <joost@ori.cadlab.de>
    Bjarne Steinsbo <bjarne@hsr.no>
    Todd C. Miller <Todd.Miller@cs.colorado.edu>
    Eric C Hagberg <hagberg@mail.med.cornell.edu>
    maf@math.chalmers.se (Martin Forssen)
    Stefano Ianigro <w_stef@unibw-hamburg.de>
    Greg Wohletz <greg@cs.unlv.edu>
    Michael Haardt <u31b3hs@POOL.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>
    Julian Anderson <jules@comp.vuw.ac.nz>
    George Harrach <ghharrac@ouray.Denver.Colorado.EDU>
    but@unibw-hamburg.de (Lothar Butsch)
    dmc900@durras.anu.edu.au (David M Clarke)
    Harlan Stenn <harlan@landmark.com>
    Ed Santiago <esm@lanl.gov>
    Panos Dimakopoulos <dimakop@cti.gr>
    dorab@twinsun.com (Dorab Patel)
    Rick Martin <rickm@cs.umb.edu>
    Baba Z Buehler <baba@beckman.uiuc.edu>
    Bertrand Wallrich <Bertrand.Wallrich@loria.fr>
    jarausch@igpm.igpm.rwth-aachen.de (Helmut Jarausch)
    Dave Alden <alden@math.ohio-state.edu>
    Jan Barte <yann@uni-paderborn.de>
    Hendrik.Klompmaker@Beheer.zod.wau.nl (hendrik klompmaker)
    Edwin Allum <edwin@cs.toronto.edu>
    Marty Leisner <leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com>
    bill@rses.vuw.ac.nz (Bill Viggers)
    Rein.Tollevik@si.sintef.no (Rein Tollevik)
    Jan Barte (yann@uni-paderborn.de)
    Mark Riley (riley@stavanger.Geco-Prakla.slb.com)
    Anders Brahe Pedersen <brahe@iesd.auc.dk>
