backend doesn't receive options

[Michael Sweet]

Meier Rudolf wrote:
> I wrote a backend. Then I installed a printer, using this backend (this backend redirects all data through the network, so, it's a 1:1 copy of the socket backend at the moment). But what it finaly should do, is to send the options like the paper size etc. first (collected trough the configuration page), and then the postscript data.
> But I don't get options... the options-parameter (argv[5]) is always empty ("") ... why? How can I get the options? Do I have to write a filter for this?

If you are setting the default options in the PPD file, then you need
to get them from the PPD file, just like a filter.

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