Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!ucdavis!caldwr!kwongj
From: kwongj@caldwr.caldwr.gov (James Kwong)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: postscript printers using lpr-'sh' doesn't work(for me at least)
Message-ID: <315@caldwr.caldwr.gov>
Date: 7 Mar 88 21:36:34 GMT
Organization: California Department of Water Resources
Lines: 32
Keywords: lpr, bsd4.2, printcap


This discussion of the 'sh' field for the printcap file, has it been tested?
This feature has never work for us. Below is our entry for our postscript
printer. You would think that  printer 'ps' would work, but it doesn't.
The header page always get printed. (Am I missing something from the 
printcap file?)

You have to do a 'lpr -h -P ps postscript_file' to get the 'prf' to suppress
the header page. 

For the heck of it, I've even try out printer 'test', same result.

-------------/etc/printcap-----------------------------------
.
.
.
ps|PostScript Enginee:\
        :pc=/com/prf -s //bear -pr lz -transparent -post:lp=/dev/null:\
        :sd=/usr/spool/lpd/ps:if=/usr/lib/lpf:\
        :sh=true:\
        :af=/usr/adm/lpacct:lf=/usr/adm/lpd-errs:
test|PostScript Enginee:\
        :pc=/com/prf -s //bear -pr lz -transparent -post:lp=/dev/null:\
        :sd=/usr/spool/lpd/ps:if=/usr/lib/lpf:\
        :sh=false:\
        :af=/usr/adm/lpacct:lf=/usr/adm/lpd-errs:
.
.
.
-- 
James Kwong  Calif. Depart. of H2O Resources, Sacramento, CA 95802
caldwr!kwongj@ucdavis.edu(Internet) ...!ucbvax!ucdavis!caldwr!kwongj (UUCP)
The opinions expressed above are mine, not those of the State of California or the California Department of Water Resources.