LN03R scriptprinter problem solved

[George Robbins]

In article <2288 at jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> barrett at jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Dan Barrett) writes:
...
> The trick was to define an "accounting filter" with the "if" parameter.
> /usr/local/filters/psfilter is nothing but this:
...
> Strangely enough, /bin/cat would not work as the accounting filter,
> as George suggested it would.  Looking at the source code to /bin/cat
> on our ULTRIX machine, I'm not surprised.  What a WEIRD piece of code!

Hmmm.  I was sure I'd tried cat and it worked, however on reflection it
occurs to me that lpd passes a number of strange arguments to the filter,
which cat(1) no doubt pukes on.  At some point I was using a little
program much like yours, but it also did lf->cr/lf and a moderate amount
of form-feed eating.

Maybe unix needs a /bin/tcat (trivial cat) than only copies stdin to stdout
no matter what you tell it to do?  8-)


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