CUPS and RFC 1179 (print commands)

Michael Sweet mike at easysw.com
Mon Nov 14 16:38:53 PST 2005


Anonymous wrote:
> What LPD-Formats are supported by CUPS? Have the format commands c,
> d, g, n, p, r, t and v any effect on CUPS?

They control the document-format attribute (the MIME type) of the
print job.

> Which error gives the LPD daemon while printing a file with a wrong
> format? as example a postscript file with the d format.

You probably will not get an error - either a bad print job or no
print job will be the result.

> RFC 1179 define no command for printing a file multipe times. How can
> I do that with CUPS?

Actually, this is not true.  You simply list the data file multiple
times to get multiple copies.

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