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From: andreas@knobel.gun.de (Andreas Klemm)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Printcap filters question
Date: 23 Jul 1995 19:35:03 GMT
Organization: Solaris 2.4 research kitchen
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References: <3u0hjg$j0g@jeeves.niehs.nih.gov> <id.CUJL1.3N2@nmti.com> <3uljru$dpo@msunews.cl.msu.edu> <id.R9SL1.MJ9@nmti.com>
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Peter da Silva (peter@nmti.com) wrote:
: You don't put the rm and rp on the printer with the filter set (it's a local
: pinter, printing to /dev/null), you put it on the remote printer:
:
: lp|local:...:of=/usr/local/lib/filter:...:
: remote:rm=them:rp=lp:...
:
: The /usr/local/lib/filter script munges the print job as needed then feeds it
: to "lpr -Premote ...".
Could one pipe the data from within the filter script through
telnet rm-printer ??? If this would work you would only need one
printer entry. Long ago I saw such things in a script. Dunno
exactly if you needed a suitable C program as driver ...
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