LPRng 3.8.20 will crash on 64 bit computers due to a bad definition of some flags, thanks to Steve Langasek <vorlon@...> for this patch. (Ref...
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Ryan Novosielski
novosirj@...
Mar 3, 2003 8:35 am
At work, my LPRng installations cause Samba (v2.2.5, but really everything before that acted the same way) to show "Paused" in the Windows status field for...
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davidek@...
Mar 3, 2003 10:29 am
Dear experts, could somebody advise me on how to configure a printer that would print to file instead to a specified device ? The reason is that OpenOffice ...
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Joel Hammer
Joel@...
Mar 3, 2003 11:07 am
No expert here but: I assume that open office will create the ps or pdf file. You just need a raw filter that will dump to to a file? This is what I use to...
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Sam Lown
samuel.lown@...
Mar 3, 2003 2:02 pm
Hi All, Back to the issue of the (damn) ifhpXXXXX files that IFHP randomly decides to leave in the spool directories. Is anyone actually working on this issue?...
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balducci@...
Mar 3, 2003 2:28 pm
Hi, ... That would be great! For the time being, the only workaround that I was able to find is to use ifhp-3.8.9, which does not seem to suffer from this ...
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davidek@...
Mar 3, 2003 2:51 pm
... Thanks a lot, I've created a spool directory /var/spool/lpd/file for it. I fixed the permissions and it printed ok to the specified file, however the job...
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Raymond M. Reskusich
reskusic@...
Mar 3, 2003 4:23 pm
For what it's worth, the OpenOffice I'm using (1.0.1 on linux) will print to file in ps or pdf format. It even seems to do a decent job on the pdfs. Raymond...
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Matt Forrest
mforrest-sb-lprng@...
Mar 3, 2003 4:48 pm
Using OpenOffice just print to file using a generic printer and it will be postscript. eg File->Print, select "Print to file" With LPRng you can set...
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David Bear
David.Bear@...
Mar 3, 2003 5:26 pm
... could this be related to 'done_jobs=0' in lpd.conf? take a look on the lprng how-to and printcap man pages... don't remember the exact wording. ... I think...
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Joel Hammer
Joel@...
Mar 4, 2003 12:07 am
rm seems to work. Seriously, I have this same problem on some of my print to file queues, but not others. I don't know why this happens. Is this a real problem...
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davidek@...
Mar 4, 2003 10:47 am
... Yes, exactly, I have to 'su' and remove the files from the queue.. it's just annoying, but of course one can live with it, since I am not going to use this...
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Walter Harms
WHarms@...
Mar 4, 2003 12:21 pm
hi list, we suspect that the lprng sometimes stalls. We have usualy a flood of data caming in and lprng normaly handelts thats easly. But sometimes the jobs...
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Graeme Wood
Graeme.Wood@...
Mar 4, 2003 1:48 pm
... Couldn't you run checkpc from cron from time to time and remove them that way? Cheers. ...
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Toby Blake
toby@...
Mar 4, 2003 2:25 pm
Hi there, I have two single-page postscript files, file1.ps and file2.ps. If I print these using the command: lpr file1.ps file2.ps ... then they come out on...
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Sam Lown
samuel.lown@...
Mar 4, 2003 2:33 pm
... I see, I hadn't realised this before. Is it possible therefore to turn off the conversion filters? - we do all the processing and conversion before sending...
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Walter Harms
WHarms@...
Mar 4, 2003 4:48 pm
hi toby, to get 2 ps on the same sheet you need psnup or an other psutil. The point is that ps describes a pages (or more) and the next ps files is automagicly...
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Sam Lown
samuel.lown@...
Mar 4, 2003 5:17 pm
... In the end I implemented a small perl script that removes the incomplete PJL command from the job. For completeness, I've included the basic script added...
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Keith Rinaldo
rinaldok@...
Mar 4, 2003 6:19 pm
Does it crash on all 64-bit archs or just x86 64-bit? I've got 3.8.19 running on a Sun machine, which is 64-bit. I was going to install 3.8.20 on a batch of...
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Keith Rinaldo
rinaldok@...
Mar 4, 2003 6:21 pm
The way that *I* understand it, and I'm far from an expert (but I sure do like to torture Patrick), if you pass the jobs with a single lpr command it's going...
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Ryan Novosielski
novosirj@...
Mar 4, 2003 7:39 pm
I am currently using LPRng 3.8.15 with ifhp 3.5.10. The only configure options I used were the prefixes. At one time, I had needed the option describing the...
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Marc Taylor
mdtaylor@...
Mar 4, 2003 10:02 pm
Hello All, I apologize if this is a double posting. It wasn't clear to me that my first post got through and so I am sending this again: We are currently...
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Craig Small
csmall@...
Mar 5, 2003 2:01 am
... At least on the alpha, which is not x86. It's a one line patch, the usual int versus pointer size problem. ...
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Johan Bengtsson
elijah@...
Mar 5, 2003 2:23 pm
... [cut] ... We had some problems with PS print jobs from Windows machines being seen as text files by ifhp. This also had to with PJL code in the PS files. ...
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John Perkins
john@...
Mar 5, 2003 3:37 pm
On Mon, 3 Mar 2003 03:23:07 -0500 (EST) ... The status reported on your Windows box depends on whether Samba found certain strings in the lpq output. You can...
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Rick Cochran
rcc2@...
Mar 5, 2003 5:13 pm
Oh oh. Look out. You have to be _very_ careful about using <STDIN> with print jobs because some sources do not use LINE TERMINATORS!! This means that one...
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Mike Brodbelt
m.brodbelt@...
Mar 5, 2003 6:05 pm
Hi, Has anyone got a printcap entry that works with an Oce 3165 network copier/printer? I'm trying to set one up, and it returns JSUCC for everything I send to...
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David Fetrow
fetrow@...
Mar 5, 2003 7:22 pm
I have one of these. One way to handle the beast is with "Ethertalk" aka "Appletalk over Ethernet" via the Netatalk package on the print server. If you are...
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m.brodbelt@...
Mar 5, 2003 10:02 pm
... The machine has only got TCP/IP enabled on the DAC. There might be a way to turn on the other protocols, but I've no clue how.... I suppose it could be in...
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William R. Knox
wknox@...
Mar 6, 2003 2:48 pm
We have a few of these Oce printers here (I think they are a different model, so this may not apply, but...) that will only respond if you send the job to one...
