Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 19:22:02 -0500 From: dkelly@hiwaay.net To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, arg@arg1.demon.co.uk (Andrew Gordon) Subject: Re: lpr/lpd and HP networked printers Message-ID: <199709240022.TAA10018@nospam.hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: Message from j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) of "Tue, 23 Sep 1997 19:04:12 %2B0200." <19970923190412.GM59568@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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Joerg Wunsch writes: > > As Andrew Gordon wrote: > > > If lpd is printing locally to a printer, it observes the "sh" capability > > and overrides the "L" command. However, if it is printing to a remote > > printer, it just transfers the control file unchanged and "sh" has > > no affect whatever. > > Sure, lpd is not supposed to forward the sh capability across the net. > (Actually, it doesn't forward many things.) Well, that doesn't mean it can't or shouldn't be changed. Seems to me if one puts sh in a printcap entry for a remote printer, then that's what one wants and it shouldn't be ignored if there is any way to implement. Wasn't the if filter recently enabled for remote printing? There is a program floating around the net that implements the lpd network connection itself but fits into printcap as an if or of filter. Tell printcap its a local printer on a copy of /dev/null, then push it out thru this program. I'll remember it tomorrow when I'm and work and have my notes. > Get a firmware upgrade, and you've got rid of them once and for all. Yeah, that too. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.
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