LPR applet

[Paul Fox]

 > 
 > Actually, RFC says that we shall terminate file sending by sending NUL.
 > How server is supposed to distinquish file data from that NUL?
 > It can do it ONLY if it knows file size beforehand.
 > 
 > Thus I do not see how zero size can possibly work (without violating RFC).

the secret, i think, lies in the fact that 1179 isn't a
"standard", but simply "for informational purposes".  i think all
it does is describe the traditional BSD behavior, which probably
worked fine back when no one sent nulls to printers.  :-)

paul
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 paul fox, pgf at brightstareng.com