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- From: rcmart@rw7.urc.tue.nl (Mart Mennen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: BSD lpr spooling problems
- Message-ID: <34576@adm.brl.mil>
- Date: 12 Dec 92 11:06:26 GMT
- Sender: news@adm.brl.mil
- Lines: 61
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- We have connected a QMS 815MR laserprinter to the builtin parallel port
- (/dev/plp) of a Indigo workstation, running IRIX 4.0.5F.
- Local printing via the SYSV lp spooling mechanism works fine for all
- kind of files: postscript or plain text.
- There are also a number of BSD-Unix based workstations, which also want to
- make use of this printer. So we installed the BSD lpr spooling software
- and setup a /etc/printcap file. Despite numerous customisations to the
- QMS 815 MR printcap entry, nothing got printed!
- We reported this to our SGI customer support people. They stated there
- was a problem in the BSD printspooler to local printers, attached to the
- parallel port.
- They sent us a workaround in which BSD printjobs are forwarded to the
- SYSV lp spooler.
-
- The printcap entry is now setup as follows:
-
- #
- # Copyright (c) 1983 Regents of the University of California.
- # All rights reserved.
- #
- # Redistribution and use in source and binary forms are permitted
- # provided that this notice is preserved and that due credit is given
- # to the University of California at Berkeley. The name of the University
- # may not be used to endorse or promote products derived from this
- # software without specific prior written permission. This software
- # is provided ``as is'' without express or implied warranty.
- #
- # @(#)etc.printcap 5.2 (Berkeley) 5/5/88
- #
- # [ remainder of entries deleted]
- #
- # printcap entry for QMS 815MR laserprinter
- ps|postscript|lp|IOP QMS PS815MR laserprinter:\
- :lp=/dev/null:\
- :sd=/usr/spool/bsdlp:\
- :of=/usr/spool/bsdlp/lp_filter:\
- :lf=/usr/adm/lpd-errs:sh:
-
-
- The ouput filter /usr/spool/bsdlp/lp_filter is just a call to lp:
-
- #!/bin/sh
- #
- # bsdlpd to sysv lp forward filter
- #
- #
- /usr/bin/lp -dQMS815MR
-
-
- Now we are getting BSD printjobs printed, but sending Postscript files is
- still causing problems. These files are NOT interpretated as Postscript:
- they are printed as normal text files!?
-
- Does anyone know how we can solve this?
-
- --
- Mart Mennen, Eindhoven University of Technology
- Computing Centre 1.99, +31 40 472164
- P.O.Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands
- E-Mail: rcmart@urc.tue.nl
-