printcap problem

From: Kirk Rafferty <krafferty_at_worldnet.att.net>
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 12:03:59 -0600

Hi folks, I've got a request to set up a printer on my DU4.0b system
that, instead of printing, runs through a print filter then dumps the
output to a file instead of a printer. Now I thought the following
would work in /etc/printcap:

s0:lp=/dev/null:of=/usr/spool/lpd/s0/s0filter.pl:

Where s0filter.pl takes stdin, processes it, then dumps to a file. But
the filter doesn't seem to even get called, and I get no error
messages. Obviously I'm missing something here.

Any ideas?

--k
Received on Thu Aug 21 1997 - 20:21:40 NZST

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