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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!purdue!lerc.nasa.gov!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!sundog.tiac.net!sundog.tiac.net!rick From: rick@vox.trystero.com (Richard E. Nickle) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: printcap filters Date: 24 Nov 1994 09:50:24 GMT Organization: The Internet Access Company Lines: 38 Distribution: world Message-ID: <RICK.94Nov24045024@vox.trystero.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: vox.trystero.com Hi, Well, this might be an FAQ, or at least a previously asked question. I tried to install a fake printer that filters postscript through the ghostscript program before putting it out to the device (in this case, a remote printer running on a non-Unix system). What I tried is various iterations of setting the 'if' (and later 'of') variable in /etc/printcap. When the printjob is spooled, however, it is never passed to the filter program. I even went so far as to have the filter program emit some text to a seperate logfile to at least verify if it was ever called. A cursory search of the sources turned up no references to anything that looks like a run of the 'if' or 'of' strings running the of or if' program specified in printcap. I also did a string search for strings looking like a call to a filter (fil, if, of, etc) and turned up nothing. Anybody solve this problem before? -- -- "When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it." - President Bill Clinton (sworn defender of the Constitution) 3-22-94, MTV's "Enough is Enough" Richard Nickle http://www.trystero.com/rick.html