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- From: oohara@anima.kek.ac.jp (Ken-ichi Oohara)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.admin
- Subject: Re: network printers..???
- Message-ID: <OOHARA.93Jan28165032@anima.kek.ac.jp>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 07:50:32 GMT
- References: <ramsey.728092533@moonshine>
- Sender: news@kekux.kek.ac.jp (USENET News System)
- Organization: KEK, Tsukuba, Japan
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- In-Reply-To: ramsey@sundance.llnl.gov's message of 26 Jan 93 23: 55:33 GMT
- Nntp-Posting-Host: anima
-
- In article <ramsey.728092533@moonshine> ramsey@sundance.llnl.gov (Susanne B. Ramsey) writes:
-
- > I have tried several ways of accessing from the SGI some printers that are
- > either on non-SGI systems or have network interfaces.. I am doing this so
- > that users can print from the Workspace and not have to worry about issuing
- > commands at the command line..
- >
- > The only success I have had is by doing the following:
- >
- > creating a file with the following in /usr/spool/lp/model
- >
- > #! /bin/sh
- :
- :
- > files="$*"
- > i=1
- > while [ $i -le $copies ]
- > do
- > for file in $files
- > do
- > lpr -Pqmsps "$file"
- > done
- > i=`expr $i = 1`
- > done
- > exit 0
- >
- >
-
- In article <ramsey.728094282@moonshine> ramsey@sundance.llnl.gov (Susanne B. Ramsey) writes:
-
- > Another problem related to this that I am having...
- >
- > when I tried to send a file to one of the "network" printers I got into
- > some sort of a loop and started sending out about 900 copies of /etc/printcap
-
- I am using the similar way with a shell script a bit different from
- Susanne's; like
-
- #!/bin/sh
- #
- NAME=
- TYPE=Dumb
- seqid=$1
- name=$2
- title="$3"
- copies=$4
- options="$5"
- shift; shift; shift; shift; shift
- files="$*"
-
- lpr -Plpr_printer -#$copies $options $files
- exit 0
-
- This will call 'lpr' once even if I need 900 copies.
- I can specify lpr options (except -m option) as -o'lpr-options'
- like
-
- % lp -dlpr_printer -o'-p -T test' files
-
- Even if you add lpr's -m option, you will *not* recieve a mail
- upon completion, but the mail will be sent to user 'lp'.
-