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From: jda@coach.shell.com (Joel D. Anderson)
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Subject: LPD and PostScript printers
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Date: 31 May 91 20:50:23 GMT
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From a Sun workstation I'm trying to print ascii files to a PostScript
printer attached to a DOS PC.  The PC is running PC/TCP LPD (v1.0) from
FTP Software.

Things work great if on the Sun I print a postscript file with
'lpr -h postscript.file', but if I try to print a plain ascii file (or
exclude the -h lpr option), the file never prints.  The printer does not
handle non-postscript-encapsulated files and subsequently flushes its buffer.

As the PC's LPD doesn't have the capacity to filter the input job to
postscript, I believe the problem resides within the UNIX /etc/printcap
file.  I've tried and tried different variations with no success.

What's the trick?

Following is my Sun's /etc/printcap before I gave up:

pcps:lp=:rm=pc1:rp=postscr:sd=/usr/spool/pcps:lf=/usr/spool/pcps/pcps-pcps:\
	mx#0:if=/usr/tran/lib/psif:of=/usr/tran/lib/psof
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Joel D. Anderson
Shell Oil Company, Information Center    Houston, TX            (713) 795-3541
jda@shell.com                                         ...!{rice,bcm}!shell!jda