At 18:00 Uhr +0100 13.02.1998, Henry B. Hotz wrote:
>At 10:22 AM -0800 2/10/98, Hauke Fath wrote:
>>Well, there's a trick... As it happens, just yesterday i hacked my printcap
>>at work to add a psnup filter. You have to have a two-stage queue system:
>>the first stage "pretends" to print to a local device (i.e. you provide
>>:lp=...:, but not :lr=...:). Therefore its filter is used and can inject
>>its stuff into the "raw" queue that feeds it to the remote printer. The lpr
>>setup that comes with ghostscript does it this way.
>>
>>I'll send you my /etc/printcap from work tomorrow; I print via Berkeley
>>line printer protocol to an Apple LaserWriter 16/600, but wrt. filter setup
>>that should make no difference.
>
>I'd like to understand this trick, but I never saw the followup with your
>example printcap.  Do I create the first stage device with mknod (and the
>same numbers as /dev/lp)?  Could I see a copy of your printcap file?

Hi,

I sent it to Sean via pm. Didn't think anyone else would be interested --
maybe I should write a printcap-howto...

I've even got a copy of the mail here, but Eudora likes to corrupt
uuencoded text that was pasted into the mail content. And I won't come into
the office next week.

Sean, could you forward your copy to Henry?

Thanks,

	hauke


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