Printcap rerouted filter

1998-10-24 Thread Kent West
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

Re: printcap rerouted filter

1998-10-01 Thread Kent West
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:\

Re: printcap rerouted filter

1998-10-01 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
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.

Re: printcap rerouted filter

1998-09-30 Thread Jim Foltz
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

Re: printcap rerouted filter

1998-09-30 Thread Kent West
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:\

Re: printcap rerouted filter

1998-09-30 Thread Kent West
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:\

Re: printcap rerouted filter

1998-09-30 Thread Kent West
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);

Re: printcap rerouted filter

1998-09-30 Thread tony mollica
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=:\

printcap rerouted filter

1998-09-29 Thread Kent West
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: