[cups.bugs] [cups-1.4.4] How to unsort job options?

Jeff Chua jeff.chua.linux at gmail.com
Wed Oct 20 16:25:38 PDT 2010


On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 4:58 AM, Michael Sweet <msweet at apple.com> wrote:
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> No, because options are name=value; "name" by itself implies "name=true" and "noname" by itself implies "name=false".  Option names cannot have spaces in them, and you cannot guarantee the order of options that are passed to a filter.
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> What you might look at is passing them as a value of an option, e.g.:
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>    date | lpr -Pprinter1 -o 'myoption="not to be sorted"'

Cool! That does it!

Thanks,
Jeff





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