Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] Routing Problems between LocalTalk and EtherTalk
From: Patrik Schindler (poc@poc.pingnet.de)
Date: Fri Oct 10 1997 - 16:05:18 EDT
>The popular wisdom
>seems to be that this will not be fixed in the 2.0.X series of
>kernels.
So this is a kernel problem (DDP-Support)?
This is VERY bad to read. I thought, I could workaround it, if I print over the spoolsystem. But I couldn't get this to work. I read doco and FAQs, set my printcap up right. A job send by lpr will be processed but never gets through to the printer.
/usr/local/etc/psf < testtextfile |pap -p "QMS-PS 410:LaserWriter@Local" prints out successfully. The lpr job never, but ps says pap is running and some ofpap status information appears in the syslog, they all state success (1.4b2 unpatched).
[Printcap:]
lp|qms:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/qms:\
:lp=/dev/null:\
:if=/usr/local/printerfilter/ifpap:\
:of=/usr/local/printerfilter/ofpap:\
:tf=/usr/local/printerfilter/tfpap:\
:df=/usr/local/printerfilter/dfpap:\
:mx#0:sh:
[/var/spool/lpd/qms/.paprc]
QMS-PS 410:LaserWriter@Local
I tried this in various escapes and quotes, but it won't work. If I call pap from within this directory, it finds the printer and prints, so I don't suspect the error here. I tested printing over /dev/lp and this works fine!
Can anybody guess, what I'm doing wrong?
If you need more information, I'll supply this.
:wq! PoC
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