Subject: Re: Requests to lpd from non-reserved ports rejected (& other q's)
To: Rafal Boni <rafal@mediaone.net>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: current-users
Date: 05/16/2001 18:37:29
On Wed, 16 May 2001, Rafal Boni wrote:
> While we're on the subject, what's lpd karma say is the better setup of
> the choices below? All this is just for home, so locking is not so much
> an issue as there's only a print job every few days, but I'd like to set
> it up "right":
>
> (1) Three different queues all pointing to the same device but
> with different filters (one for PS, one RAW for windows
> clients, one for plain-text), or
> (2) Three `stacked' queues, with the outputs of one feeding the
> inputs of another:
>
> text queue -> postscipt queue -> raw queue
>
> Where:
> Text queue takes in plain text and produces PS.
> PS queue takes in PS and produces printer-specific
> foo.
> Raw queue just feeds it's input directly to the
> printer.
Another options is to have a script that autodetects the type of
file - see print/if-psprint
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