tmoore@pi19.pnfi.forestry.ca (Tom Moore) (10/18/90)
I am having problems setting up output print filters on a sunos 4.1 machine. I have changed the printcap file to include the appropriate filters, (e.g. of, tf) but they are not activated. A sample line from my printcap is as follows: 0|lp:lp=:sb:sh:rm=GatorBox04340:rp=ps_laser:\ tf=/home/pi19/local/bin/thack: It seems that the problem might be that the printer is on a remote machine. My guess is that lpd passes the original file off to the remote machine without filtering, and passes a flag to indicate what filter should be applied. My problem is that the remote machine isn't a unix box running lpd. It is a GatorBox that gateways between TCP/IP and Appletalk protocols, therefor it cannot be set up to run the unix filters I want to run. Has anyone encountered this before? I cant find any mention of this in the man pages. Does anyone know of a work-around to force the use of the filters before the job is queued to the other machine. Thanks, Tom Moore -- Tom Moore tmoore@pnfi.forestry.ca Petawawa National Forestry Institute uunet!attcan!ists!pi19!tmoore Forestry Canada, Box 2000, Chalk River +1 (613) 589-2880 CANADA K0J 1J0 +1 (613) 589-2275 telefax