Hello!
My message was:
>
>Hello!
>
>My problem is:
>
>I have defined in the file /etc/printcap the capability :
> pw#80
>however, when I send to print some file with lines of more 80
characters,
>this capability is not respected, always printing more of 80
characters.
>
>Anybody can help me?
>
>Thanks in advanced.
>
The answers are:
Knut Helleboe:
If you print to a remote printer usually no locally added
filters/capabilities will work remotely.
Granse:
if your printer is an remote printer (rm=<hostname> in the printcap,
then the pw of the remote host is used.
Barry Treahy:
My experience has allways been that the PW only impacts the
size/positioning of the banner page.
Sean Watson:
The pw# and pl# printcap entries are simply passed to the input filter
(if=xxx). If you don't specify a filter, output is simple passed on
unmodified (and the length entry is ignored). If you do have a filter,
but it ignores the -w flag (-l for length), you will have similar
problems.
The output filter also gets -w and -l (as set in pw# and pl#) so you
can do the filtering there also.
If you use the c, d, g, f, n, t, or v options on lpr, you will get the
cf, df, gf, rf, nf, tf, or vf filter and it will be passed values from
px# and py# (page size in pixels).
Phil Krause:
In the documentation for printcap read up on if & of.
EX. :if=/usr/lbin/lg31of -w80 -l59:\
This will keeep the length of line (width) to 80 and the
number of lines to 59.
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Thank you very much and specially to Sean Watson.
Bye!
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