things for msweet to add to his (next) book

Michael Sweet mike at easysw.com
Tue Nov 16 11:27:02 PST 2004


null wrote:
> Michael,
> 
> A discussion of filter installation, chaining, errors encountered 
> therein would be nice. Beyond a decent .types and .convs discussion, the 
> rev of the book I have (purchased from you about two months ago) doesn't 
> offer much in the way of filter location, *cupsFilter usage (and 
> importance) and errors one might expect along the way.

What kinds of examples are you looking for?

> It would also be nice to know if there are *any* error codes one can 
> return from a filter (or CUPS config settings) that won't lead CUPS to 
> disable a printer queue in the event of filter failure.

Filter errors can't disable a queue, only backend errors.

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