hi,
did you ever compare the controlfiles ?
regards
~christoph
Alex Finch schrieb:
> Hi,
>
> I thought I would post this on the off chance someone else has the
> same problem.
>
> The Problem
> ============
>
> The problem I had was that print jobs submitted from client machines
> are treated differently with respect to filtering compared to those
> submitted on the server machine.
>
> To be precise I have the following arrangement:
>
> Several `client' machines running LPRng-3.5.3
>
> One server machine running LPRng-3.7.4
>
> The server machines has several bounce queues which pass jobs onto
> networked printers, all of which accept postscript.
>
> (The idea obviously is to keep all the clever stuff in one place so it
> is easy to manage!)
>
> I use the ifhp filter, configured via ifhp.conf so that it detects
> text files and converts them to postscript using a2ps. This also allows
> various options like duplex/simplex 2by2 etc to be implemented.
>
> I found that it only worked for print jobs submitted from the server
> machine.!!!!
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> ( much hair tearing later...)
>
> The Solution
> ============
>
> I discovered that although in both cases lpd puts the file through the
> filter, when the job originates from a client machine it calls the
> filter with a -c option, which turns off most of what ifhp does, in
> particular the text to ps conversion which I required.
>
> My solution was to replace the line
> :filter=/usr/local/lib/filters/ifhp
> in my printcap with
> :filter=/usr/local/lib/filters/ifhp_wrapper.sh
>
> where the file /usr/local/lib/filters/ifhp_wrapper.sh is just:
>
> arg_list=`echo $* | sed 's/\ -c//' `
> /usr/local/lib/filters/ifhp $arg_list
>
> it works !
>
> That's all folks!
>
> Alex
> --
>
> Alex Finch, Research Officer, Physics Department, Lancaster University.
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