Garance A Drosihn wrote (1999/08/23):
> Why would the filter be reading the control file? It is just a
> filter, supposedly reading from stdin and writing to stdout...
Yes and not.
You can look into apsfilter for example. It gets from control file
JOB, USER and HOST items in case of ASCII input printing. This
information is used for "better" printing - ASCII input is converted
into PostScript and some additional headers are added: "Printed by USER
from HOST', "JOB name", date of printing and others. Why we should
lose this feature? (But I don't know, if there is any other and better
way how to fix this problem.)
--
Rudolf Cejka ([EMAIL PROTECTED]; http://www.fee.vutbr.cz/~cejkar)
Brno University of Technology, Faculty of El. Engineering and Comp. Science
Bozetechova 2, 612 66 Brno, Czech Republic
To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
