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Date:      Tue, 11 Apr 2000 19:24:31 -0400
From:      Randall Hopper <aa8vb@ipass.net>
To:        =?iso-8859-1?Q?Trond_Endrest=F8l?= <trond@ramstind.gtf.ol.no>
Cc:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: lpd hangs up -- Any advice?
Message-ID:  <20000411192431.A1745@ipass.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004111614130.68991-100000@ramstind.gtf.ol.no>; from trond@ramstind.gtf.ol.no on Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 04:16:53PM %2B0200
References:  <20000410201859.A8248@ipass.net> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004111614130.68991-100000@ramstind.gtf.ol.no>

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Trond Endrestøl:
 |On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, Randall Hopper wrote:
 |
 |> I have a PostScript printer queue that, if I print multiple jobs to it, it
 |> almost always stalls between each job.  I have to "give it a kick" with:
 |> 
 |>      lpc start all
 |> 
 |> to get it to go on and print more jobs.
 |> 
 |> Any idea why this might be happening?
 |
 |Change your output filter to input filter (of -> if). The input filter
 |is run for each and every file. The output filter is only run once for
 |all files in the current job.

Thank you!  That works great.  (In hindsight, I can't believe I put up with
that behavior for all this time; I figured it had to be a bug.)

The man page is clearly misleading on this issue:

     if         str       NULL                   name of text filter which
                                                 does accounting
     of         str       NULL                   name of output filtering
                                                 program

What I wanted to do has nothing to do with accounting.  And from their
names ("input filter" and "output filter") either sounds appropriate.  

Thanks a bunch!

Randall


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