Knowing nothing about a2ps or ifhp, why don't you try to add the option
--non-printable-format=space to the command in your ifhp.conf file for type
data?
Joel
On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 08:21:14PM -0500, Lisa Weihl wrote:
> I have a unique situation in which professors are dealing with files that
> students create via a shell script called photo. The photo script
> basically runs the Unix script command and saves the output to a
> file. Usually the things they do while running the photo script are to cat
> out their programs, issue some commands and execute their programs. If
> they make mistakes while typing and backspace those characters end up as
> non-printable in the photo log file. These files reside on another Unix
> system outside my dept. and when they are printed (currently from DEC Unix)
> they are simply handed over to my lpd. I'm using LPRng 3.7.4 and ifhp
> 3.4.4 The problem is that even though the majority of the file is ascii
> text the GNU file command in my ifhp filter is declaring these files as
> type data because of those non-printable characters. The file type data is
> not defined and so ifhp quits without printing. As a quick fix I tried
> just to tell ifhp to run it through a2ps anyway even if the type was data.
> In that case a2ps is complaining that the file is binary and won't convert
> it. The strange thing (or maybe not strange to those of you who understand
> this better than I) is that running a2ps -Pmyprinter
> --non-printable-format=space thenastyfile on the original system lets the
> file come through just fine.
>
> Below for reference here's the relevant section of my ifhp.conf
> file. Nothing fancy. Anyone have any ideas of anything I can do to handle
> this situation? To be honest I got LPRng + ifhp up and running and haven't
> worked with it much since then. TIA for any help.
>
>
>
> # set forceconversion to force the file(1) utility to be used
> default_language=text
> forceconversion@
>
> ## UNIX File utility path
> file_util_path= /usr/local/bin/file -
> ## Patterns and Converters
> # example conversion program
> file_output_match = [
> *postscript* ps \%s{ps_converter}
> *pcl* pcl \%s{pcl_converter}
> *pjl* pjl \%s{pjl_converter}
> *pdf* ps \%s{pdf_converter}
> *jpeg* ps \%s{a2ps_converter}
> *gif* ps \%s{a2ps_converter}
> *printer*job*language* pjl
> # *text* pcl \%s{text_converter}
> *text* ps \%s{a2ps_converter}
> *data* ps \%s{a2ps_converter}
> *gzip_compressed* filter \%s{gzip_decompress}
> ]
>
> # gs_device=epsonc
> # gs_options=-r240x72
> # gs_converter= /usr/local/bin/gs -dSAFER -dBATCH -q -sOutputfile=-
> -sDEVICE=\%
> s{device}
> # \%s{gs_options} -
> #
> #
> gs_converter= /usr/local/bin/gs -q -dSAFER -dBATCH -sOutputFile=-
> -sPAPERSIZE=\
> %L{papersize} -sDEVICE=\%s{gs_device} \%s{gs_options} -
> gs_unidriver= /usr/local/bin/gs -q -dSAFER -dBATCH -sOutputFile=-
> -sPAPERSIZE=\
> %L{papersize} @\%s{gs_device} \%s{gs_options} -
> #a2ps_options= -q -B -1 -M \%M{papersize} --borders=no -o-
> a2ps_options= -q --non-printable-format=space '--header=Printed by:
> \%s{n}' '--
> stdin=\%s{N}' --font-size=9 --columns=1 --portrait -M \%M{papersize}
> --borders=
> yes -o-
> a2ps_converter= /usr/local/bin/a2ps \%s{a2ps_options}
>
> gzip_decompress = /usr/local/bin/gzip -c -d
> pdf_converter = /usr/local/libexec/filters/acroread-wrapper.sh
> **********************************************************************************
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