bossert@entropy.ms.washington.edu (John Bossert) (11/17/87)
I'm writing a filter for lpr to allow ascii text to be sent to a Postscript device. I've successfully written the "if" filter along with a pass-through "tf" filter allowing me to use the devps troff-to-Postscript translation routines. If I don't submit a job using "lpr -h", however, the output gets improperly translated to Postscript and dropped on the floor. The problem seems to be that the header information: hostname:username Job: jobname Date: date gets sent to the printer outside the Postscript envelope. What I want to do, is to install a "of" filter in /etc/printcap. I understand that if an "if" filter is defined, the "of" filter will only process the burst page. Thus, I want to write an "of" filter that will either toss or properly process the burst page information. To date, the attempts I've made at writing an "of" filter have resulted in either no output at all or a hung spooler. Thanks for any help. Please send mail and I'll summarize to the net. --- John Bossert Domain: bossert@Thalatta.COM Path: uw-beaver!uw-entropy!thebes!bossert