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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!swing.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!news.emf.net!overload.lbl.gov!lll-winken.llnl.gov!simtel!swidir.switch.ch!scsing.switch.ch!news.belwue.de!News.Uni-Marburg.DE!news.th-darmstadt.de!fauern!lrz-muenchen.de!uni-regensburg.de!faui0n.informatik.uni-erlangen.de!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!not-for-mail From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Printing filter question Date: 15 Oct 1995 11:16:56 +0100 Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden. Lines: 13 Message-ID: <45qn2o$irh@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <45jdrl$pi9@gap.cco.caltech.edu> <45l5k3$3h3@uriah.heep.sax.de> <45nf14$hbd@macs.mxim.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: uriah.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Michael Enkelis <michaele@macs.mxim.com> wrote: >The way i get this to work, is to make my psx4 printcap entry >act like a printer is realy attached. Then in the filter program >send output back to the real device (lpr -Pps-real) Yes, i've also been verifying it. This will work. Don't forget to add "lp=/dev/null" for the filter printer entry, otherwise lpd would attempt to open a real device instead. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)