Subject: Re: question about lpd behaviour w/ filters & remote printers
To: Michael Eriksson <Michael.Eriksson@era-t.ericsson.se>
From: Matthias Buelow <mkb@mukappabeta.de>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 11/05/2000 20:54:38
Michael Eriksson <Michael.Eriksson@era-t.ericsson.se> writes:

>> does anybody know why the NetBSD lpd doesn't setup filter pipelines
>> for remote printers?  This restriction sounds a bit stupid to me,
>
>Have you tried to use lpd -r?
>
>     -r      The -r flag allows the ``of'' filter to be use if specified for a
>             remote printer.  Traditionally, lpd would not use the output fil-
>             ter for remote printers.

Yes but it doesn't work.
It invokes the output filter but doesn't send anything through it.
Maybe I should file a pr about that.

	--mkb