lpd keeps printing the same file over and over -- HELP
Joel Huddleston
j1h9453 at aim1.tamu.edu
Thu Apr 11 00:23:51 AEST 1991
In article <1991Apr9.161710.29024 at leland.Stanford.EDU> kocks at jessica.stanford.edu (Peter Kocks) writes:
>We had a perfectly functioning lpd filter to print files on our HP
>when all of a sudden the lpd seemed to want to reprint the same file
>over and over and over agian.
>
>I heard this was a bug. Does anyone know of a fix?
I had this problem with an lpd filter that I got off of the net.
To fix it, I added exits to the code which would return the correct
status to the lpd. The most important was the exit(0); at the very
end of both the input and output filters.
Joel Huddleston eka j1h9453 at zeus.tamu.edu
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