Date: Sun, 16 Apr 1995 12:37:44 -0400 (EDT) From: Richard Toren <rpt@miles.sso.loral.com> To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: aspfilter & stdin Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950416123406.11024A-100000@miles>
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Gentlemen,
For the last three days I have been trying to make 'apsfilter' work
on my 2.0R system. I have learned a lot, but have hit a final sticking
point.
'apsfilter' is started by the lpd. It tries to determine the type of
file that is being printed. Unfortunately, it uses `file -` to determine
the type of file. A companion program is supplied called 'rewindstdin'.
main()
{
return lseek(0,0L,0) < 0;
}
This program is supposed to allow the reading of stdin a second time
by 'a2ps' after the parameters and filters have been determined.
This program does not work in FreeBSD as designed.
I then thought to read the spooled datafile in place of the stdin to
determine file type. Unfortunatly the apsfilter runs as daemon.wheel,
which does not have the correct permissions to read the spooled data.
I then made apsflter 02755 owned by root.daemon. Unfortunately it still
ran as daemon.wheel.
Is my final option to cat stdin off to another temp file, work with it
there, and pass that as the file to a2ps to print. With a 10MB
Postscript file, that would mean three copies (orig. , spool, temp).
Is there any way to make rewindstdin function? Or at least provide
the equivelant functionality?
There were other problems I have had with this package that I will comment
on later if I ever get it running.
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