Some months ago I posted:
>We are trying to move from an OpenVMS PATHWORKS server to
>an OSF/1 server. All is well except for printing to Postscript
>printers from the PCs, which through the OSF/1 server print out
>the Postscript as text. Printing from OSF/1 is fine. Digital have
>suggested using different filters, for example hplaserof instead
>of hplaser4psof in the case of an HP LJIV, but it didn't help.
>
>Any suggestions?
Some people suggested putting Ctrld=0 in the win.ini file, but
this does not seem to work all the time, in about 40% of cases
you still get PostScript as text. In the end, I wrote an input
filter to examine the first character of stdin, if it's a ctrl-D
it is discarded. This seems to work, my printcap for the PWRKs
queues is now:
lp3|3:\
:if=/usr/lbin/noctrld:\
:lf=/usr/adm/lp3err:\
:lp=/dev/lat/623:\
:mc#20:\
:mx#0:\
:of=/usr/lbin/hplaser4psof:\
:pl#66:\
:pw#80:\
:rw:\
:sh:\
:sd=/usr/spool/lpd3:\
:xf=/usr/lbin/xf:
There's not much to the filter, it just does what I've described,
but I'll be happy to send it to anyone who needs it!
Ian.
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Received on Tue May 30 1995 - 13:17:00 NZST