From owner-freebsd-bugs Thu Apr 18 14:12:31 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA09487 for bugs-outgoing; Thu, 18 Apr 1996 14:12:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA09338 for ; Thu, 18 Apr 1996 14:10:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id XAA25793; Thu, 18 Apr 1996 23:10:14 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id XAA22162; Thu, 18 Apr 1996 23:10:13 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id WAA02240; Thu, 18 Apr 1996 22:49:37 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199604182049.WAA02240@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: problem with lp under 2.1R ? To: reichert@internet.com Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 22:49:37 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199604172212.SAA08531@oneida.internet.com> from "Brian Reichert" at Apr 17, 96 06:12:03 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-bugs@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Brian Reichert wrote: > > This may be an RTFM, but I'm not seeing it: > > I'm trying to set up a printcap file to utilize a remote printer, > which I'm doing quite successfully. > > However, I am trying to utilize either an input filter or output > filter ('if' and 'of' in printcap(5) ), but they seem to be bypassed > utterly. Is this normal behaviour? Yep. Filtering works only at the target site. However, you could filter, and forward to another local printer, that finally spools the job for the 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. ;-)