At 10:22 AM -0800 2/10/98, Hauke Fath wrote:
>Well, there's a trick... As it happens, just yesterday i hacked my printcap
>at work to add a psnup filter. You have to have a two-stage queue system:
>the first stage "pretends" to print to a local device (i.e. you provide
>:lp=...:, but not :lr=...:). Therefore its filter is used and can inject
>its stuff into the "raw" queue that feeds it to the remote printer. The lpr
>setup that comes with ghostscript does it this way.
>
>I'll send you my /etc/printcap from work tomorrow; I print via Berkeley
>line printer protocol to an Apple LaserWriter 16/600, but wrt. filter setup
>that should make no difference.

I'd like to understand this trick, but I never saw the followup with your
example printcap.  Do I create the first stage device with mknod (and the
same numbers as /dev/lp)?  Could I see a copy of your printcap file?

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