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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.periphs.printers Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!super.zippo.com!zdc!ix.netcom.com!netcom.net.uk!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!fido.news.demon.net!demon!sun4nl!news.iaf.nl!news.es.iaf.nl!yedi!wilko From: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl (Wilko Bulte) Subject: Re: Remote LPD Postscript printing quandary... Distribution: inet Organization: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem, The Netherlands Message-ID: <E71yAt.xu@yedi.iaf.nl> References: <E704sD.FAw@rockyd.rockefeller.edu> <5gaag3$oqd@diamond.xara.net> Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 21:28:05 GMT Lines: 21 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:37141 comp.periphs.printers:61658 tjh@xara.net (Timothy Hunt) writes: >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 You might want to check out 'lprps' Wilko -- Wilko _ ____________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Bulte email: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl - Arnhem, The Netherlands |/|/ / / /( (_) Do, or do not. There is no 'try' - Yoda