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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!serv.hinet.net!news.uoregon.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!blackbush.xlink.net!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de!news.rwth-aachen.de!genesis.westend.com!news.gtn.com!knobel.gun.de!usenet From: andreas@knobel.gun.de (Andreas Klemm) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Remote printing through a filter Date: 12 May 1996 18:58:06 GMT Lines: 35 Message-ID: <4n5cbu$lsl@knobel.gun.de> References: <4msi2t$1ov@anorak.coverform.lan> <4n20e8$rjj@uriah.heep.sax.de> X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 In-Reply-To: <4n20e8$rjj@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In article <4n20e8$rjj@uriah.heep.sax.de>, j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes: >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. I really would like to see this patch in FreeBSD and a patch for input filter as well ! I have much trouble with this in apsfilter. If people for example have a laser printer with a network card plugged in, then they cannot use apsfilter without making ugly kludges, because of this restriction. I vote for more flexibility ;-) Andreas /// -- andreas@knobel.gun.de /\/\___ Wiechers & Partner Datentechnik GmbH Andreas Klemm ___/\/\/ $$ Support Unix - aklemm@wup.de $$ pgp p-key http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/~bal/pks-toplev.html >>> powered by <<< ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/Printing/aps-491.tgz >>> FreeBSD <<<