On Thu, 25 May 2000 07:31:32 -0400 (EDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Thu, 25 May 2000, Tom Watson wrote:
>
> > I thought it would be simple. Just setup a pap server and have it spool
> > out to the LPR queue. It isn't that easy...
> >
> > >From the file '/var/log/lpr.log' (written by papd):
> > (all with machine ID and papd process id number)
> > ...: restart (1.4b2+asun2.0a18.2)
> > ...: No such printer: lp
> > ...: printcap problem: lp
> > ...: register dr-bond:EpsonLQ2@*
> > ...: unregister dr-bond:EpsonLQ2@*
> >
> > (The last message promptefd after a kill of the papd process)
> >
> There are some syntax errors in your papd.conf
>
> > I thought it would be simple because my files are pretty simple:
> > File '/etc/netatalk/papd.conf':
> > # Test Printer:pr=test:
> >
> > \:EpsonLQ2:op=tsw:pr=lp:
> Why that backslash at the beginning of the line??? You will need it at the
> end of a line, if the printer definition continues within the next line.
> Also some versions of papd don't like more than one information per line.
> The best version would be:
> 8<-------------------------*snip*
> # Endless comments.
> EpsonLQ2:\
> :op=tsw:\
> :pr=lp:
> 8<-------------------------*snip*
The backslash at the BEGINNING of the line is to escape the ':' character!
This allows me to specify the "entity type" (see chapter 7 in _Inside
Appletalk_). In fact this works quite well. I don't want the type to
be a LaserWriter (the default), and my reading of the code showed that
one could specify the type in the form shown above. A previous suggestion
to specify a 'pipe' instead of a printer type appears to work a little bit.
The data spooled is not correct for the printer, and the lpr log has
the message "Bad ATP request" repeated 6 times. I may need to check it out
a bit further. I think that it might be the Epson PAP client asking for
some status data or something. Back to packet traces...
>
> mfg,
> Moritz Kaiser
>
> __________________________________________________________
> Moritz Kaiser
> Studentische Vertretung, Technische Universitaet Muenchen
> Europe / Germany
>
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