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From: matter@blake.acs.washington.edu (Matthew Trunnell)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: CAP/papif question
Keywords: CAP,papif,unix
Message-ID: <4787@blake.acs.washington.edu>
Date: 6 Dec 89 19:53:18 GMT
Organization: Univ of Washington, Seattle
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I have just installed CAP on our local network which, on the UNIX side,
consists of a DECstation 3100 (running the atalkad), two SPARCstations, and
about 15 SUN-3's.  I have a problem with the papif input filter.  The problem
is that the only printer papif seems to know about is that which was set in
the root environment when the lpd was started.  The -P flag of lpr spools
to the right place, but the printjob module of lpd, which invokes papif, 
never passes the printer name (I guess none of the standard input filters
need to know the printer).  When papif makes its getenv("PRINTER") call, it
seems to look to the root environment present when the lpd was initiated,
rather than to the user's environment.

What am I doing wrong?

matter


Matthew Trunnell Ec-2				matter@ocean.washington.edu
School of Oceanography, WB-10			matter@UWAVM.BITNET
University of Washington
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