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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!satisfied.apocalypse.org!news2.near.net!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!geordan From: geordan@OCF.Berkeley.EDU (Geordan Rosario) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Can't get printer to work correctly Date: 9 Jun 1995 07:39:28 GMT Organization: U. C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility Lines: 33 Message-ID: <3r8trg$lts@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <3plcn3$e68@agate.berkeley.edu> <3qfedi$e4g@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: maelstrom-ether.berkeley.edu In article <3qfedi$e4g@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de>, J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote: >The pw# value is mostly irrelevant unless you've also installed a >filter that cares for it. (of= value, e.g.) > >lpd itself does not much formatting, the most you can get it doing is >piping the data through pr(1) (-p option). Note that pr(1) normally >cannot be used to fold long lines, you must use fold(1) instead. > >RTFM printcap(5) for an explanation on how the various lpd filters >work. > I did go through printcap's man page quite a few times, and I still don't have filters straight. (Not a cool Unix guru yet.) Could you give me an example on using pr as the filter? Thanks, Geordan -- +=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=+ |Geordan Rosario. Virtually existent at geordan@ocf.berkeley.edu or | | Using OS/2 and 70274.460@compuserve.com | | FreeBSD! http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu:80/~geordan | +=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=+=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=+ | Adaptec Tech Support | The opinions expressed here are mine and may be | | *SUCKS*! | purchased for $10 each. | +=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=+=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=+ | And the Unix user said, "rm -R /*" -- and all was null and void. | +=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=+