| Andreas Klemm on Thu, 17 Jan 2002 21:20:12 +0100 (CET)(envelope-from owner-apsfilter-help@apsfilter.org) |
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| Re: 4.4R: if: doesn't get started when getting remote print job |
On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 02:10:45PM -0500, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > At 2:43 PM +0100 1/17/02, Christian Ullrich wrote: > >* Michael Loßin wrote on Thursday, 2002-01-17: > > > Now all we have to do is find out why apsfilter does that: > >> > > > 2) You give the "-b" or "-l" options to lpr -- please tell me > >> that you don't... :^) > > > >Yes, I don't :-). > > >From another message that Christian sent to me, I know that what the > server sees for a control file is as if the original 'lpr' command on > the client machine *did* do a '-l'. The control file for the print > job indicates that the file should be printed "literally", so both > lpr (or lprNG) and apsfilter are handling the print job the way they > should handle the print job. > > So, the question is, "Why are the lprNG-based clients sending the > print job as if -l had been specified". I do not know lprNG, but I > suspect there is something about the printcap entry on those clients > which is causing that to happen. Hi Patrick, sorry for sending this mail to you directly. We have a problem with LPRng print clients sending remote print jobs to other Unix machines. We found out, that LPRng print clients send the print job, as if a "-l" (literally) had been specified on the command line. Because of this printing at the remote site, where the printer is actually connected to, doesn't do the right thing. It prints the text in ASCII and with staircase effect, because the printjob is handeled "literally". This only happens with LPRng based clients. No matter if you have stock Berkeley lpd or LPRng installed on the remote machine, that acts as print server. The Linux print client running LPRng 3.7.4 in question is a SuSE Linux 7.3 machine. We think this might be a bug somewhere in LPRng and hope you assist uns in fixing this. Best regards Andreas /// -- Andreas Klemm Apsfilter Homepage http://www.apsfilter.org Support over mailing-lists (only!) http://www.apsfilter.org/support Mailing-list archive http://www.apsfilter.org/Lists-Archives Songs from our band >> 64Bits << http://www.64bits.de Inofficial band pages with add-on stuff http://www.apsfilter.org/64bits.html