initialization string for printer
Caleb Hess
hess at iuvax.cs.indiana.edu
Thu Feb 9 16:19:43 AEST 1989
david at wubios.wustl.edu (David J. Camp) writes:
>I am trying to set up an initialization string that is sent to a printer
>every time I print a file. I am currently using the 'ff' option in
>/etc/printcap, which takes effect after the header page. ...
What you need to do is write a simple output filter (called with the 'of'
option in /etc/printcap). The filter writes the initialization string to
stdout, then copies stdin to stdout until EOF. See "4.3BSD Line Printer
Spooler" for a complete description of how filters work. It's in ch. 19
of "System and Network Administration" in my Sun documentation.
hess at iuvax.cs.indiana (Caleb Hess) KE9LC
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