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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!enews.sgi.com!news.sgi.com!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!rill.news.pipex.net!pipex!netcom.net.uk!emerald.xara.net!xara.net!diamond.xara.net!xara.net!news From: tjh@xara.net (Timothy Hunt) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.periphs.printers Subject: Re: Remote LPD Postscript printing quandary... Date: 14 Mar 1997 01:43:31 -0000 Organization: Xara Networks Ltd Lines: 13 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <5gaag3$oqd@diamond.xara.net> References: <E704sD.FAw@rockyd.rockefeller.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: diamond.xara.net Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:36981 comp.periphs.printers:61375 In article <E704sD.FAw@rockyd.rockefeller.edu>, Dan Ts'o <dan@dnn.rockefeller.edu> wrote: >So lpr should be smart enough to take both ASCII and Postscript jobs >straightup and do the right thing. This is pretty easy if the remote LPD >host is a Unix machine, but in this case, it is a network printer. so move the real lpr some place else, and put in a wrapper that does what you want before passing it to the real lpr. Timothy -- The above words are my words, and do not necessarily reflect the views of anyone else.