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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!newsfeed.ksu.ksu.edu!news.physics.uiowa.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!lll-winken.llnl.gov!nntp.coast.net!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Remote printing through a filter Date: 11 May 1996 12:16:08 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 21 Message-ID: <4n20e8$rjj@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4msi2t$1ov@anorak.coverform.lan> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) wrote: > Is there a good reason that lpd doesn't use an output filter for a > remote printer ? If not, the following patch to > /usr/src/usr.sbin/lpr/lpd/printjob.c will allow it: I don't know if there's a _good_ reason, but it's been this way as long as i know lpd. Maybe this is since the authors of lpd had some sort of printer accounting capabilities in mind, which concentrated on the output filter for each printer. The usual workaround was to provide a local pseudo-printer that is hooked to a script (via if=) which in turn calls lpr again with the raw (possibly remote) printer. -- 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. ;-)