home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
- Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!usenet.coe.montana.edu!news.u.washington.edu!serval!haney!hakimian
- From: hakimian@haney.eecs.wsu.edu (Karl Hakimian - staff)
- Subject: Re: rlpdaemon
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.192913.20003@serval.net.wsu.edu>
- Sender: news@serval.net.wsu.edu (USENET News System)
- Organization: School of EECS, Washington State University
- References: <1992Dec16.180907.15089@serval.net.wsu.edu> <BzF0qF.FMC@fc.hp.com>
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 92 19:29:13 GMT
- Lines: 32
-
- In article <BzF0qF.FMC@fc.hp.com>, lienhart@fc.hp.com (Bob Lienhart) writes:
- |> You cannot send the duplex option from a Berkeley-based spooler.
- |> The BSD spooler has no concept of "user defined/modified options".
- |> The BSD spooler only understands file types and there is no file
- |> type for formatted-ASCII-with-Duplex.
-
- While this is true of a pure Berkeley system, dec supplies a duplex option
- in there setup. This still does not help since hp ignores it.
-
- |> The problem with this is that there is no way to specify single-sided
- |> output to override the new default. To overcome this:
-
- Yes, that is the problem.
-
- |> There are two problems with this, 1) The Berkeley system will only be able
- |> to print double sided from now on and 2) HP-UX users will have to manually
- |> specify single-sided (-os) when they want single-sided output.
-
- Again, that is the problem.
-
- |> As you can tell from this you cannot really have it both ways.
-
- As it turns out you can have it both ways if you don't want to use an
- option that makes sense.
-
- If a Berkeley lpr command specifies a class name, hp's rlpdaemon puts that out
- as an option -BSDCclass_name. So I got around the problem by looking for that
- option in the interface script and sending it when I want to print duplex.
-
- --
- Karl Hakimian
- hakimian@yoda.eecs.wsu.edu
-