I've already sent several bits of my printing tale. Here's the whole story...
I discovered a few problems with apsfilter, as I already reported. Then I found that dvilj wouldn't take a dvi file from stdin, as required for automatic formatting so that you can just do lpr -Pprinter file.dvi. And now I tried to make automatic font generation work with the MakeTeX{PK,MF} scripts. After the above fixes we get the following on the remote machine: lpd - apsfilter - dviljk - MakeTeXPK - mf - MakeTeXMF - wierd error "no more child processes" comming apparently from MakeTeXMF *SIGH*. I then tried a radical solution: I linked /bin/sh to zsh beta 18 instead of bash, and VOILA it works! If the bash maintainer wants I can send more details. I vote for just dumping it :-) I also reported a bad bug with lpr, which won't let someone remove a print job on a remote printer. I expect to send a patch soon. Moral: if you want to have smart printing, use window$ :-( :-( :-( Carlos