| Andreas Klemm on Thu, 17 Jan 2002 21:40:16 +0100 (CET)(envelope-from owner-apsfilter-help@apsfilter.org) |
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| Re: I found it (was: Re: 4.4R: if: doesn't get started when getting remote print job) |
On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 08:08:34PM +0100, Christian Ullrich wrote: > * Christian Ullrich wrote on Thursday, 2002-01-17: > > > Michael's workaround. Now I just need to find out why LPRng > > treats any job as literal. > > So, problem solved. It's a brain-dead SuSE patch to the LPRng > sources in their LPRng-3.7.4 package on SuSE Linux 7.3 that changes > the default job format from "f" to "l". Although they create > an lpd.conf file within that same patch, it probably never occurred > to them that they should perhaps put it there, so that it may be > found. > > So, it was never the fault of apsfilter. I would like to apologize > for all the unnecessary work I caused, and thank all of you again > for your friendly help. Many thanks to you as well, Garance. > > I will now work around above crap by adding a default_format entry > to lpd.conf, where it belongs. > Hi Patrick, sorry for "bugging LPRng". Now we found the real problem. I put Werner Fink from SuSe on Cc:, so he is informed. To summarize: SuSe's LPRng package on SuSE 7.3 is broken, by adding a bogus patch, that breaks remote printing in a way, that all remote jobs are flagged as if user had initiated print job with "lpr -l". So magic filter, that respect standards, can't work as expected... By flagging the print job wrongly as "literal" the print job can't be treated correct by the remote printer scheduler. In this case the user only got ASCII output and the "famous" stair case effect instead of giving apsfilter a chance to work properly and translating ASCII using a2ps. Please fix this asap, it costed some guesswork (it was a long thread on the mailinglist and many people were involved). BTW, was there a reason behind this patch ... just curious ... 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