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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!news.gmi.edu!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!cs.utexas.edu!atlantis.utmb.edu!news From: bdodson@beowulf.utmb.edu (M. L. Dodson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Printing filter question Date: 17 Oct 1995 15:35:53 GMT Organization: The Sealy Center for Molecular Science Lines: 24 Message-ID: <460igq$dag@atlantis.utmb.edu> References: <45qn2o$irh@uriah.heep.sax.de> Reply-To: bdodson@beowulf.utmb.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: beowulf.utmb.edu In article <45qn2o$irh@uriah.heep.sax.de>, j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes: >Michael Enkelis <michaele@macs.mxim.com> wrote: >>The way i get this to work, is to make my psx4 printcap entry [snip] > >Yes, i've also been verifying it. This will work. Don't forget to >add "lp=/dev/null" for the filter printer entry, otherwise lpd would >attempt to open a real device instead. >-- Don't know about FreeBSD, but on Sun OS 4.1.x, using "lp=/dev/null" like this fails on some kind of permission problem. I don't remember the exact details. What I do is create a real file, e.g., <spool dir>/blackhole.<printer name>, to be the "destination". Even though it shouldn't, sometimes stuff actually appears in this file. Bud Dodson >cheers, J"org [snip] -- M. L. Dodson bdodson@beowulf.utmb.edu 409-772-2178 FAX: 409-772-1790