[ale] Printer question

[Bob Kruger]

Matthew Brown wrote:

> Sorry.  The workstatins are varied, as are the programs.  The Linux box is
> currently simply queueing the raw print files and sending them along.  I
> thought i may be able to set up a pre-processor situation.
>

Matt;

OK - good start.  Would it be a good assumption that the only files you want to
put a header on are those files that are coming from an linux application or are
ASCII based?  I can not think of a good reason to put a date stamp on the top of
MS Word or Powerpoint presentation files...

If its straight ASCII files, this is pretty easy.  You could easily set up another
printer definition in the /etc/printcap file, and run the file being sent to that
different printer definition.  That definition would enable the "of" option in the
printcap file and run everything through an output filter before it goes into the
queue.

Let me know.

Bob

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