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Date:      Thu, 18 Apr 1996 22:49:37 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        reichert@internet.com
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: problem with lp under 2.1R ?
Message-ID:  <199604182049.WAA02240@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199604172212.SAA08531@oneida.internet.com> from "Brian Reichert" at Apr 17, 96 06:12:03 pm

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As Brian Reichert wrote:
> 
> This may be an RTFM, but I'm not seeing it:
> 
> I'm trying to set up a printcap file to utilize a remote printer,
> which I'm doing quite successfully.
> 
> However, I am trying to utilize either an input filter or output
> filter ('if' and 'of' in printcap(5) ), but they seem to be bypassed
> utterly.  Is this normal behaviour?

Yep.  Filtering works only at the target site.  However, you could
filter, and forward to another local printer, that finally spools the
job for the remote printer.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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