Did you solve this?
> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Sep 5 14:17:42 2000
> Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 16:08:01 -0400
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> From: "Paul M. Livingston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: LPRng: Spooling problem with pnm2ppa-1.0 and RH6.2
> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Greetings;
>
> I have installed pnm2ppa to support an HP 1000C (rummage sale bargain, that
> I refused to give up on) and it seems to be working, as I can use the
> program "test_ppa" and generate various test prints. I can also use a hand
> crafted script that completes successfully when writing directly to
> /dev/lp0, but not when piped to lpr.
>
> The following printing SW is installed on a slightly modified RH6.2
> installation (2.2.16-3 kernel):
> LPRng-3.6.24
> IFHP-3.3.21
> pnm2ppa-1.0
> rhs-printfilters-1.63
>
> A networked printer (JetDirect) installed on the same box as lp1
> (lpd_bounced to rm:) works just fine. I suspect that I'm operating "spring
> loaded in the dumb position" as to a configuration setting in the spooler
> and/or my printcap entry, but ran "checkpc" (from LPRng) with no errors
> .The script/command line that works is:
>
> cat testpage.ps | gs -q -sDEVICE=ppmraw -dNOPAUSE -r600 -sPAPERSIZE=letter
> -sOutputFile=- - | /usr/bin/pnm2ppa --eco -v 1000 /etc/pnm2ppa.conf -s
> letter -i - -o - > /dev/lp0
> (all on a single line)
>
> the same string with the end changed to " ... | lpr " fails with an error
> in the IF filter "JABORT" and " 'make_passthrough failed : 'permission
> denied' "
>
> I tried removing the "IF" value in printcap entirely and restarting lpd,
> but to no avail as the error message from the status.lp0 remained the same.
>
> I'm not at all sure that this is pnm2ppa problem, but I'm hoping that
> someone on the list will have some insight or suggestions. The
> documentation on both LPRng and IFHP is completely silent on PPA printers
> and from looking at the sources for pnm2ppa it looks as if the output
> should just be passed through to the parallel port and dumped to the
> printer. The problem seems to be that there are at least 5 processes
> interacting here - GS, pnm2ppa, LPRng, IFHP and the red hat filter program
> and I'm not sure what is breaking what.
>
> Regards and thanks in advance for any assistance or advice
>
> Paul
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