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From: tjh@xara.net (Timothy Hunt)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Re: Remote LPD Postscript printing quandary...
Date: 14 Mar 1997 01:43:31 -0000
Organization: Xara Networks Ltd
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In article <E704sD.FAw@rockyd.rockefeller.edu>,
Dan Ts'o  <dan@dnn.rockefeller.edu> wrote:
>So lpr should be smart enough to take both ASCII and Postscript jobs
>straightup and do the right thing. This is pretty easy if the remote LPD
>host is a Unix machine, but in this case, it is a network printer.

so move the real lpr some place else, and put in a wrapper that does what
you want before passing it to the real lpr.

Timothy
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