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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.smb,comp.sys.hp.hpux,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: smbprint & /etc/printcap
Date: 25 Oct 1996 09:03:18 GMT
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mi@rtfm.ziplink.net (Mikhail Teterin) wrote:

> For any M$ systems this would have been the end of it. On Unix,
> this means, you just need some scripting. Make a script of your own,
> which will pipe it's stdin into the apsfilter, and apsfilter's
> stdout into some file. Then -- just send this file to the
> printer using your favourite smb-script:

You can even avoid the file, and pipe the output directly back into
lpr.

The only drawback of this is that the owner of the job for the second
lpr call will be `daemon' then, so the originator of the job is no
longer allowed to remove it from the queue.  Other than this -- we are
using it regularly this way.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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