On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Patrick Powell wrote:

> 
> Yes, there is an option EXACTLY to handle this.
> 
> You want to set :remote_support=R
> 
> This will prevent LPD from getting status from the printer.
> 
> Most of the time you really do not care what the printer thinks
> its status is...
> 

That also prevents LPQ from getting the status from LPD running
on the same host, unless you split the printcap entry in a :server
and a :client part.

What we want to acheive is that lpq can query the local lpd server,
but prevent the lpd server to forward the status query to the printer
box, many of which can't handle a status query while busy printing.

That, of course, is only relevant if you use the lpd protocol to
talk to a printer box.


Villy



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