RE: [SLUG] CUPS / filter question

From: Bill Glidden (bill@thegliddenfamily.com)
Date: Thu Aug 03 2006 - 10:12:43 EDT


> -----Original Message-----
> From: slug@nks.net [mailto:slug@nks.net] On Behalf Of Ian C. Blenke
> Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 3:31 PM
> To: slug@nks.net
> Subject: Re: [SLUG] CUPS / filter question
>
> Daniel Jarboe wrote:
>
> Looking into Daniel's suggestion a bit, it looks like this is relatively
> simple.
>
> Follow something like the universal "beh" script:
>
> http://linuxprinting.org/beh.html
>
> It's a simple perl script that you put into the backend directory, and
> it intercepts backend errors.
>
> $ cd /usr/lib/cups/backend/
> $ wget 'http://linuxprinting.org/download.cgi?filename=beh&show=0'
> $ chmod 755 beh
>
> Taking beh as a template, you can easily modify it to append your escape
> sequence to the end of the printFile before handing it off to the
> original backend.
>

Ian,

Your suggestion worked like magic! I owe you another dinner at
you-know-where!

Bill

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