[aclug-L] Re: Printcap

[Jonathan Hall <jonhall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It looks right.  If you look at the if line, you can see that there are
three different filters.  They all use the same printer, but each entry is
for slightly different purposes.  Now why apsfilter did it that way, I
don't know for sure...

But it doesn't look like it's wrong.


On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, Craig Terhune wrote:

> This is part of my printcap sould I have 3 entries for a single printer or 
> did 
> I do something wrong when I set it up?
> 
>  ascii|lp1|djet500-letter-ascii-mono-300|djet500 letterascii mono 300:\ 
>       :lp=/dev/lp0:\
>       :sd=/var/spool/lpd/djet500-letter-ascii-mono-300:\
>       :lf=/var/spool/lpd/djet500-letter-ascii-mono-300/log:\
>       :af=/var/spool/lpd/djet500-letter-ascii-mono-300/acct:\
>       :if=/var/lib/apsfilter/bin/djet500-letter-ascii-mono-300:\
>       :la@:mx#0:\
>       :tr=:cl:sh:sf:
> #
> lp|lp2|djet500-letter-auto-mono-300|djet500 letter auto mono 300:\
>       :lp=/dev/lp0:\
>       :sd=/var/spool/lpd/djet500-letter-auto-mono-300:\
>       :lf=/var/spool/lpd/djet500-letter-auto-mono-300/log:\
>       :af=/var/spool/lpd/djet500-letter-auto-mono-300/acct:\
>       :if=/var/lib/apsfilter/bin/djet500-letter-auto-mono-300:\
>       :la@:mx#0:\
>       :tr=:cl:sh:sf:
> #
> raw|lp3|djet500-letter-raw|djet500 letter raw:\
>       :lp=/dev/lp0:\
>       :sd=/var/spool/lpd/djet500-letter-raw:\
>       :lf=/var/spool/lpd/djet500-letter-raw/log:\
>       :af=/var/spool/lpd/djet500-letter-raw/acct:\
>       :if=/var/lib/apsfilter/bin/djet500-letter-raw:\
>       :la@:mx#0:\
>       :tr=:cl:sh:sf:
> #
> ### END   apsfilter: ### djet500 letter mono 300 ###
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