Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 23, 1998 at 09:58:35AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > > This isn't specifically Debian-related, but if I can get this done it'll be > > a major score on campus for Linux in general and Debian specifically. > > > > Can I print from a Win95 box to a Debian queue and route that output to an > > email message as well as to a printer? > > Easy. Use lprng. It can daisychain filters. Read stdin, pass the data to > stdout and at the same time pass the relevant data to a pine to mail. Use > the second filter to talk to samba to get the file printed. > > BTW, sounds really interesting. > > Marcelo
Kent writes: I'm not yet anywhere near Linux-literate: Brian sent me the following snip of example. > Something like the following, don't take my word on it. I am not a > great shell programmer. > > #!/bin/sh > # the script called by 'if' in the printcap for the samba printer > # > # assume input to filter is plain text > > # copy stdin to tmp file > cat - > /tmp/pager.$$ > > # feed to pager email > mailx -s "Page Message" [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /tmp/pager.$$ > > # pass stdin through ascii to ps converter and then > # let ghostscript create a printer file to pass on to the > # printer. > a2ps [options] /tmp/pager.$$ | ghostscript -s -sDEVICE=printername ....\ > -sOUTPUTFILE=- - > > rm /tmp/pager.$$ > # end I tried putting this in my magic filter and then tried a test print (ls -l | lpr -Pbeeper) and the printout showed up on the printer, but no mail appeared and no /tmp/pager file appeared. The idea of daisychaining two filters as suggested by Marcelo sounds intriguing (and cleaner). I'd go with whichever method can be made to work. Any clues? Thanks.
