Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 14:27:18 +0100 From: "Juan L. Freniche" <jlfreniche@acm.org> To: net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Passing Parameters to Remote Printers Message-ID: <367663B6.518CE524@acm.org>
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I have several FreeBSD (2.2.7) boxes in the same LAN shared with
the print server (which is HP-UX). I have defined all necessary
printers in FreeBSD as remote, being the remote host the HP-UX
one.
However, the HP-UX supports controlling the local printer by
setting some options in the lp command (yes, lpr in HP-UX is
"lp"). Examples:
lp -d hp5p -oeconoon -oduplex -odpi300 -oyb some_file
lp -d hp5p -oeconooff -osimplex -odpi600 -onb some_file
lp -d hp5p -oeconooff -oduplex -odpi300 -onb some_file
lp -d hp5p -oeconooff -oduplex -odpi300 -oyb some_file
lp -d hp5p -oeconooff -osimplex -odpi600 -oyb some_file
where hp5p is the printer (attached to HP-UX).
The FreeBSD printcap relevant part is:
hp5p|ps|remote postscript printer:\
:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:sh:sc:rs:lp=:\
:sd=/var/spool/output/lpd/hp5p:\
:rm=hp-ux:\
:rp=hp5p:
And this is working if the lpr command (in FreeBSD) has
FreeBSD-lpr-options:
lpr -h -P hp5p some_file
However lpr displays error messages with
lpr -P hp5p -oeconoon -oduplex -odpi300 -oyb some_file
which is obvious as it does not support -o
The question is that I need to pass -o parameters to the remote
printer.
How can this be done?
--
Juan L. Freniche
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