From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 29 12:22:58 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA29600 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 29 Jan 1996 12:22:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from horst.bfd.com ([204.160.242.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA29584 for ; Mon, 29 Jan 1996 12:22:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from harlie.bfd.com (bastion.bfd.com [204.160.242.2]) by horst.bfd.com (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA08974 for ; Mon, 29 Jan 1996 12:19:03 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 12:24:28 -0800 (PST) From: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: printcap question Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I realize that there's probably a more appropriate place for this question, but I can't find it. How do you combine input filters and remote printers? I've heard that if you use an rm field in your printcap, that filters are ignored. This is the way my installation is behaving (2.1R). Problem is, my printer is an HP4+ with a JetDirect card, so it can't do its own printer filters. Right now, I'm handling this by having the input filter pipe data to lpr with a seperate queue set up to send the data to the remote printer. Is there a nicer way to do this? Either by using a printcap field that stuffs the data into another queue rather than forcing the filter to do it, or by letting me use filters and remote printers in the same definition.