Passing LPR arguments through 'cups-lpd '

[Michael R Sweet]

Brian Schonecker wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 
> I must disagree respectfully.  I'm using LPRng on a RedHat 7.1 server and if I capture the stream from LPD I get the following:
> 
> 
> 1   ps2pdf ,
> 2   -Abschone at SCHONECKER+142 ,
> 3   -CA ,
> 4   -Ff ,
> 5   -HSCHONECKER ,
> 6   -JHELLO ,
> 7   THERE ,
> 8   -Lbschone ,
> 9   -Npostscript.txt ,
> 10   -Pps2pdf ,
> 11   -Qps2pdf ,
> 
> 
> etc, etc.  Those are most definately job options (or arguments from LPR) to the LPD server.

RFC 1179 does not define any way to pass options.  Solaris, IRIX,
and LPRng all use mutually incompatible ways of passing options,
so it is simply not feasible to support option passing into
cups-lpd.

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