hi,
the if / filter stuff has been discussed lately -> see the archive
regards
~christoph
"Brett I. Holcomb" schrieb:
> I'm trying to get an Epson 1270 to work with Caldera's eDesktop 2.4. The
> printer is connected to an Intel Netport Express 10/100 print server. I can
> print text files but the filter supplied by Caldera doesn't seem to work in
> that it executes but if I lp -d one.ps (the ifhp sample file) all I get are
> the postscript commands printed out in text format. I am NOT running ifhp
> filters at this time - just Caldera's which appears to be based on the ifhp
> filter.
>
> My printcap entry is below. What is the difference between the :if= and the
> :filter= entries? According to the man pages and O'Reilly's "Network
> Printing" if is used process each file and filter is the default filter.
> That means, to me, that if is applied to every file sent to it and filter is
> used if no other filters are specified which in my case means filter would
> also be applied to each file.
>
> Here's the printcap.
>
> epnet:\
> :lpd_bounce:\
> :rm=192.168.1.50:\
> :rp=LPT1_PASSTHRU:\
> :sd=/var/spool/lpd/epnet:\
> :mx#0:\
> :sh:\
> :if=/var/spool/lpd/epnet/printfilter:
>
> --
> Brett I. Holcomb
> Microsoft MVP
> Associate Expert
> AKA Grunt <><
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