I've posted this before, but I'll try again.
I've got a printcap entry like this:
beeper:\
:if=/etc/magicfilter/beeper-filter:\
:lp=/dev/null:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/beeper:\
I've got a filter named beeper-filter that looks like this:
#!/usr/bin/perl
print
On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, tony mollica wrote:
Hi. Just browsing through the list and found the following
excerpt from your message:
It's like the input filter is never being called. If I set the printcap
entry so it remote prints to our network printer, like so:
beeper:\
On Wed, Sep 30, 1998 at 11:36:54PM -0500, Kent West wrote:
[...]
10.8. Running an if for remote printers
One oddity of lpd is that the if is not run for remote printers. If
you find that you need to run an if, you can do so by setting up a
double queue and requeueing the job.
On Tue, Sep 29, 1998 at 04:41:06PM +, Kent West wrote:
Maybe I just don't understand how printcap/lpc/filters work (very
likely).
I've got a printcap entry like this:
beeper:\
:if=/etc/magicfilter/beeper-filter:\
:lp=/dev/null:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/beeper:\
I've
Jim Foltz wrote:
On Tue, Sep 29, 1998 at 04:41:06PM +, Kent West wrote:
Maybe I just don't understand how printcap/lpc/filters work (very
likely).
I've got a printcap entry like this:
beeper:\
:if=/etc/magicfilter/beeper-filter:\
:lp=/dev/null:\
Kent West wrote:
Jim Foltz wrote:
On Tue, Sep 29, 1998 at 04:41:06PM +, Kent West wrote:
Maybe I just don't understand how printcap/lpc/filters work (very
likely).
I've got a printcap entry like this:
beeper:\
:if=/etc/magicfilter/beeper-filter:\
Okay, I'm getting closer to my goal of routing a printjob to both an
email message and a printer.
My beeper-filter looks like this:
#!/bin/sh (originally /usr/bin/perl)
my $MAIL
open (MAIL, |mail -s \911 Call\ [EMAIL PROTECTED]);
while () {
print MAIL;
print;
}
close (MAIL);
Hi. Just browsing through the list and found the following
excerpt from your message:
It's like the input filter is never being called. If I set the printcap
entry so it remote prints to our network printer, like so:
beeper:\
:if=/etc/magicfilter/beeper-filter:\
:lp=:\
Maybe I just don't understand how printcap/lpc/filters work (very
likely).
I've got a printcap entry like this:
beeper:\
:if=/etc/magicfilter/beeper-filter:\
:lp=/dev/null:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/beeper:\
I've got a filter named beeper-filter that looks like this:
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