On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Ryan Novosielski wrote:
> <<< snip snip - user noticed change from SysV lp to LPRng >>>
>
> Another problem I notice is that the "-o4" switch no longer works. I used
> to type "pr four_page_report | lp -o4" and have four pages print out on a
> single page. I would type "pr two_pager | lp -o2" and have a two page
> print job appear on a single page. These -o switch settings no longer seem
> to work.
lp/lpr (usually) sends jobs to a spooler, the spooler then may
filter the job. This business of -o2 or -o4 is passed on to
whatever actually does the filtering.
> Here is another one that I'm not sure how to fix. Does LPRng support this
> mode of printing directly, or is there a filter someplace (the LPRng
> FILTERS so-called repository has little to nothing in there besides ifhp -
> maybe ifhp knows how to do this?)
The two filters I've used with LPRng are magicfilter and apsfilter.
One of these is actually just a big shell script. If that filter
doesn't understand the -oN business, you could edit the shell script
and add the capability. Most of the filtering seems to be dependent
on the contents of the job, as determined by the UNIX file command.
Gord
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