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From: j1h9453@aim1.tamu.edu (Joel Huddleston)
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Subject: Re: lpd keeps printing the same file over and over -- HELP
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Date: 10 Apr 91 14:23:51 GMT
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In article <1991Apr9.161710.29024@leland.Stanford.EDU> kocks@jessica.stanford.edu (Peter Kocks) writes:
>We had a perfectly functioning lpd filter to print files on our HP
>when all of a sudden the lpd seemed to want to reprint the same file
>over and over and over agian.  
>
>I heard this was a bug.  Does anyone know of a fix?

I had this problem with an lpd filter that I got off of the net.

To fix it, I added exits to the code which would return the correct
status to the lpd.  The most important was the exit(0); at the very
end of both the input and output filters.

Joel Huddleston  eka j1h9453@zeus.tamu.edu
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