On Fri, May 01, 1998 at 01:04:10AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 01, 1998 at 04:03:46AM -0500, Will Lowe wrote:
> > about how to write a filter that does nothing, I'll do that ... I'd make
> > another printcap entry like this:
> >
> > raw|winprint:\
> > :lp=/dev/NULL:\
> > :if=/usr/sbin/rawprint:
> >
> > where /usr/sbin/rawprint just takes its input and cats it to /dev/lp1 ...
> > any ideas? Remember that I can't cat anything to lp1 without killing lpd,
> > which is waiting on lp1 already, but that if I try to do "lpr" within
> > rawprint, it'll get passed through magicfilter, which is the problem in
> > the first place...
>
> Hmmmm. If you don't specify a filter at all (remove the if=) then
> it won't use magicfilter, and will go straight through to the printer.
>
> Then you can have both the raw and cooked (magicfiltered) queues
> running in parallel; at least, I THINK this is supported (using the
> same port).
>
>
> Hamish
If you can't direct two queues to the same device, put them in sequence. Have
the
magicfilter queue print to the raw queue. I have to do this for remoter
printers:
lp|lj|hplj4l|HP Laserjet 4L:\
:lp=/dev/null:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/hplj4l:\
:sh:\
:pw#80:\
:pl#66:\
:px#1440:\
:mx#0:\
:if=/usr/local/bin/remote-filter:\
:af=/var/log/lp-acct:\
:lf=/var/log/lp-errs:
lp-r|HP Laserjet 4L-r:\
:lp=/dev/null:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/hplj4l-r:\
:sh:\
:pw#80:\
:pl#66:\
:px#1440:\
:mx#0:\
:af=/var/log/lp-acct-r:\
:lf=/var/log/lp-errs-r:\
:rm=jetd:\
:rp=raw:
/usr/local/bin/remoter-filter:
#!/bin/sh
/usr/sbin/ljet4l-filter | lpr -Plp-r
To use magicfilter, print to lp. This print job will be filtered through
remote-filter.
remote-filter filters through magicfilter and then prints to the raw printer.
Windows
programs can just use the raw printer.
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