On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Jason M. Felice wrote:
> - I'm thinking abstractly about having an lp5250d `filter' option, which
> determines whether to prefilter the output to the print command with
> some
> pipe to a shell script (and lp5250d and the shell script would handle
> the
> command line options). So, for example, you'd say lp5250 filter=pdf
> ...,
> and lp5250d would look for /usr/libexec/tn5250/pdf.filter and run it.
> pdf.filter would look like:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> scs2ps "$@" |ps2pdf
>
> That way we could easily implement filter=fax, filter=ps,
> filter=ascii,
> filter=scs (just a passthrough filter), filter=tiff or whatever. Does
> this
> make sense?
>
You mean you want to use "filter=" instead of "outputcommand=" ??
What would be the advantage of this method?
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