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Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 07:33:34 -0600 (MDT)
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Subject: Bounce queues
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[ I think my previous email found the SPAM sack. :-) ]
My system at home/office consists of a regular PC running
Debian Linux (slink/woody/potato) and a router/firewall
running FreeSCO (486/33). Both computers have printers
attached to their parallel ports. I want to do all print
processing on the regular PC. Both LPRng and magicfilter
were current/unstable as of a week ago.
I believe I need to use a bounce queue, in order to process
print jobs on my regular PC, before I send the print job
to the printer connected to my firewall. I can send test
text jobs to that printer, but they suffer from the dreaded
staircase effect. Looking at the magicfilter setup, it
appears that magicfilter should be prepending the appropriate
escape sequence to the print job, but if I stop the queues
to look at the data files there are no escape sequences
present. I've run both lpr -D 8 and lpd -F -D 8 while
sending a short text print job, and while I can see that
lpd.perms, lpd.conf and printcap all get read (multiple times
it seems), I can't see anything which looks like lpd starting
the input filter on the input. I think I've tried about 10
different printcaps all based on example bounce queues I've
seen in LPRng docs.
Matter Realisations http://www.materialisations.com/
Gordon Haverland, B.Sc. M.Eng. President
101 9504 182 St. NW Edmonton, AB, CA T5T 3A7
780/481-8019 ghaverla @ freenet.edmonton.ab.ca
One version (earlier) of my printcap was
lp|HP Laserjet 3P:
:lp=bounce@localhost
:lpd_bounce
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/hplj3p
:if=/etc/magicfilter/ljet3-filter:
:sh:
bounce:
:lp=lp@FreeSCO
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/bounce
:bq_format=l
:sh:
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