Questions about lpr printing: I tried putting a filter that drives an HP Deskjet printer (works with lprng on linux) as an output filter in printcap and it didn't work. Would it be more proper to put it as an input filter? I am still on version 6.7 of the OS. (I saw a recent post indicating that changes were made to the lpr system in 6.8.)
One of the problems was that I couldn't get rid of the banner page even though the appropriate flags were set. I have looked for lpr documentation more informative than the lpr/lpd/printcap man pages, but I haven't found anything. The printcap page describes some really archaic filters, but not much that is helpful in today's world. I am currently using cups but would like to get rid of it, because if their set of filters doesn't do the job, you are stuck. (Plus other hair-pulling frustrations.) Dave -- David J. Raymond david.raym...@nmt.edu http://kestrel.nmt.edu/~raymond
