Thanks to all who responded. Sorry I did not get the summary back sooner.
Respondees :
Scott Fendley <dsf@comp.uark.edu>
Stefan Voss <s.voss@terradata.de>
Peter M Allan <peter.allan@aeat.co.uk>
"Brian E.W. Wood" <beww@intac.com>
Joseph S D Yao <jsdy@tux.org>
David Thorburn-Gundlach <david@bae.uga.edu>
Original Question :
Question to all,
Is there a way to filter each print job, ie. I wrote a filter to
take from stdin or from an arguement and print it to the printer with the
cr/lf at the end of the line. Any ideas?
Bob
Some of the answers included :
HP jetadmin software for solaris if using HP printers
LPRng from
http://www.leo.org/pub/comp/sysmgmt/printing/systems/LPRng/beta/index.html
"Essential System Administration" from A. Frisch (O'Reilly) on page 563.
for SunOS 4.1 you can put of=/usr/local/bin/printfilter in /etc/printcap
and then in printfilter put :
#!/bin/sh
sed -e 's/$/^M/' -
in Solaris try lpfilter
Other ideas included running samba for network printing and doing stuff
with it, renameing lp to lprun or something and put the filter right into
a self written script lp.
Again thanks for all of the great ideas.
Bob Bridgham
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