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- From: todd@draco.macsch.com (Todd C. Williams)
- Subject: Re: Printing Problem
- Message-ID: <1992Nov6.025611.14837@draco.macsch.com>
- Sender: todd@draco.macsch.com (Todd C. Williams)
- Organization: MacNeal-Schwendler Corp.
- References: <1992Oct7.091142.15775@alcatel.ch>
- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 92 02:56:11 GMT
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- Almost a month ago(!), Tom van Nes <thomas.vannes@alcatel.ch> posted:
- > Printing from Interleaf was not a major Problem. But now it is because
- > a new output filter was installed on our printserver. This filter is
- > definitely better than the old one, but it is also too clever.
- > Interleaf creates 2 files which are placed in the spool directory of
- > the printserver. Example:
- > cfA026rlab
- > dfA026rlab
- > The control file and the file (postscript) itself.
- > The control file contains a line which was ignored by the old filter,
- > while the new filter says it is an offending command. The line:
- > S1823 70839l
- > If I remove the line and place the 2 files in the
- > spool directory, the document gets printed! Or if
- >
- > How can I get rid of the line?
-
- You don't.
-
- > or
- > 2. How do I filter the line?
-
- You don't.
-
- > or
- > 3. What do I do?
-
- Get a new filter; yours is *broken*.
- There is an RFC about the LPD system....I think it's RFC 1179.
- I saw it the other day, and noticed that the above "S" line
- conforms to the spec.
- --
- Todd Williams UNIX Systems Coordinator todd@macsch.com (213) 259-4973
- MacNeal-Schwendler Corp. ("MSC"), 815 Colorado Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90041
- "The Democrats stand for nothing except 'I wish I was a Republican' and the
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- in balloons and ribbons." -Frank Zappa, 1991 (Zappa for president!)
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