Passing LPR arguments through 'cups-lpd '

[Michael R Sweet]

Anonymous wrote:
> I've got a "Print to PDF" application that is running currently on
> LPRng.  My Novell Netware server prints to the 'ps2pdf' printer on
> the RedHat server and I've writting a little 'if' filter that extacts
> the arguments and determines the user who submitted the job.
 > ...

There is no standard way to pass job options over LPD, so CUPS does
not support it.  Novell does, however, support IPP, so you can use
IPP instead of LPD to get the options across.

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