On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Jeroen Diederen wrote:
> thank you very much, I already found this one yesterday !!! The script provided here
>does
> not yet work....
Try the version I'm attaching. I can't really test it since I don't have
such a printer. I just changed the argument test, and made the call to pap
use an absolute path. The printer URI should be:
pap://PrinterName/ including the trailing slash. Not sure if CUPS
needs the / but it looks safer this way (=.
You need to put the file in /usr/lib/cups/backend, make it executable, and
restart the cups daemon (/etc/init.d/cups stop; /etc/init.d/cups start).
There's also a version written in perl at
http://www.srz-berlin.de/~bla/cups/backend/pap/pap
Christiaan
#!/bin/sh
#
# Usage: PAP job user title copies options [filename]
#
# No arguments means show available devices...
if test "$#" = 0; then
echo "network pap \"Unknown\" \"Appletalk printer\""
exit 0
fi
user=$2
copies=$4
device=`expr $DEVICE_URI : 'pap://\(.*\)/$'`
if test $# = 5; then
# Get print file from stdin; copies have already been handled...
file=/var/tmp/$$.prn
copies=1
cat > $file
else
# Print file is on command-line...
file=$6
fi
while [ $copies -gt 0 ]; do
/usr/bin/pap -p $device $file
copies=`expr $copies - 1`
done
# Remove any temporary files...
if test $# = 6; then
/bin/rm -f $file
fi
exit 0
