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- From: david@marie.stat.uga.edu (David Gundlach)
- Subject: Re: Printing problems
- Message-ID: <1992Dec12.152157.5146@athena.cs.uga.edu>
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- Organization: UGA Statistics Department
- References: <1gavefINN3ot@athena.sdsu.edu>
- Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 15:21:57 GMT
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- And then in <1gavefINN3ot@athena.sdsu.edu>, butler@saturn.sdsu.edu (Michael Butler) said...
- % Hello Folks,
- %
- % I have a situation where all the UNIX machines that are
- % networked together through ether-net have access to
- % printers which are on a Novell network. The problem is
- % that the UNIX printer daemon puts a new page on the print
- % job before it gets sent to the Novell network, and then
-
- It doesn't have to...
-
- % the Novell printer daemon puts another new page on as well.
-
- I don't know about this, so I'll tackle the UNIX end.
-
- % Has anyone out there ever had this problem, and if so has any
- % of them solved it?
-
- First, a disclaimer: this information comes from working on SUN systems.
-
- Now to the information... In the /etc/printcap file, you can declare
- just about anything about your printer. One of the fields is 'of',
- which is the output(banner) filter. If you set this to something
- like /bin/true, you should probably be able to print pages with no
- banners.
-
- The other option is to use the -h flag in your print jobs, so that
- the header(banner) page is supressed. [I sure wish the authors would
- have settled on the terms used! :-) ] Unless you've declared the
- printer explicitly in some program, most users are probably printing
- with some invocation of the lpr command (if it's a BSD system, anyway...)
- and thus could attach the -h flag. We've written up some shell scripts
- named after the printers (lw, lpm, lj) that automatically direct printing
- to the proper device as well as supress the header page.
-
- %
- % Thanks for any input,
- Hope this helps...
-
- %
- % Mike Butler
- % butler@saturn.sdsu.edu
-
-
-
- :-D
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