In message <200103150225.LAA14912@ibr1.irm.nara.kindai.ac.jp>, you write:
> What's a good way to have lpd not filter the input data, but rather
> pass it transparently to the printer without adding, subtracting or
> altering the data?  Right now I'm using the following mini-script as
> "if" to do the job (and it works; yippee), but I'm not at all sure
> what pitfalls there might be in using cat like that.  TIA.
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> cat && exit 0
> exit 2

That works, but you can also just eliminate the :if: entry in your printcap
to not have an input filter at all.

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Michael Parson
mparson@bl.org