Re: Printing from windows
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
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