Date: Wed, 2 Apr 1997 17:32:04 -0700 (MST) From: Wes Peters - Softweyr LLC <softweyr@xmission.com> To: brandon@cold.org (Brandon Gillespie) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: printing with two levels of if filters.. Message-ID: <199704030032.RAA02662@xmission.xmission.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.95.970402154722.23202A-100000@cold.org> from "Brandon Gillespie" at Apr 2, 97 03:50:49 pm
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> I have print spooling setup through Columbia Appletalk. This works great,
> EXCEPT for i can only print postscript files. I would like to setup a
> text2ps filter, except for the way lpd spooled cap works the if is the
> command that spools it to the printer... any suggestions? I thought of
> setting up two entries for the printer, one of which is the CAP spooler
> and one which is a pre-filter basically, which uses rm to forward to the
> other printer (on the same box) but this does not work, as (I'm guessing)
> any input filters are ignored when you are just forwarding to a remote
> host...
Create a printcap entry for the REAL printer, called "cap," and for the
pseudo-printer, called "lp." The lp if script mangles the input with
text2ps and pipes it to lpr -Pcap, which gets it to the actual
printer.
You were close! ;^)
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Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
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