Hi all,
Thanks to:
Martin Achilli, Yaron Hemi, Danny Johnson, Sherman Schorzman, Don
Catey, Matt Hill, Milt Webb and Don Lewis for their helpful suggestions.
In the end, I followed Danny's advice (and Matt and Milt's too) to write a
filter which processed the data as I wished then passed it on to another
print queue. I wrote a simple awk script to add CRs to each line and then
bung a formfeed on the end of the last page, then lp'd the file to a queue
which pointed to the remote device. Here's the relevant line from the
interface file:
/usr/macros/u2dprtfilter "$file" | lp -dremotequeue
where remotequeue is the simple queue which pipes the data to the
network printer adapter. The contents of /usr/macros/u2dprtfilter (yeah
ugly name I know) are:
--- #!/usr/bin/nawk -f# u2dprtfilter -- filter to convert LFs to CR/LFs then add an FF at the end { print $0, "\r" } END { print "\f" } --- simple huh? The command I used to add the first queue (which users specify when wanting to print) was:
lpadmin -p printername -i /etc/lp/model/printername -v /dev/null
I put the filter I wrote in /etc/lp/model, of course.
Any more questions, I'd be happy to answer them. I get the feeling that this was a bit of a quick and dirty method, but it was the simplest solution that I could come up with.
Regards Mark Norman
Original query follows: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi all,
I have a printer which is connected to a TCP/IP network via a little adapter with just enough brains to make itself known as a host and shove print jobs through to the printer it's plugged into. Unfortunately this box isn't clever enough to add carriage returns to linefeeds; since it's a remote printer I can't make an interface for it, I assume. Is there any way around this problem? FYI, I'm using Solaris 2.4.
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