the outputfilter has nothing to do with accounting but with banner printing and
some more stuff which is described in chapter 4.25 of the HOWTO...
regards
~christoph
Ryan Novosielski schrieb:
> But will accounting and all of that work with just filter= or do I need to
> call ifhp the two different ways... I notice in some printcaps it is called
> as ifhp and then ofhp, and perhaps there is something that it needs to do
> when called as ofhp that won't happen if I use filter=.
>
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> Christoph Beyer
> Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 3:17 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: LPRng: filter vs. if/of
>
> hi,
>
> it's just to minimize your typework: if you use 'filter:' this means you
> want this filter to be used for all dataformats, except those that you
> did specify otherwise.
>
> If you just use the 'if' entry you should be aware of files containing
> different format codings in the controlfile (not 'fdfA...' but for ex
> 'ndfA...') as you will probably those files to be processed by your
> filter too you need some additional lines in your printcap: nf=...,
> rf=..., tf=..., etc.
>
> Note that this doesn't concern the 'ldfA...' entry in the controlfile,
> which NT tends to send, this means binary format and no filter can be
> specified in the printcap, the file will be minimal processed, but
> leading control characters will be usually ignored.
>
> In LPRng you can force the controlfile entry to be changed by using the
> 'translate_incoming_format' flag, for ex 'translate_incoming_format=lf'
> will replace the 'l' entry by the default UNIX format 'f' entry...
>
> regards
> ~christoph
>
> Ryan Novosielski schrieb:
> >
> > Can someone explain (it's not clear to me from the HOWTO) what
> specifically
> > is the difference between using filter= rather than if= and of=?
> >
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