data file name has underscore substituted for period

[Michael Sweet]

tschoeder at state.nd.us wrote:
> When a print job is submitted with the following command
> 
> lpr -P prt01  mydoc.pdf
> 
> Cups replaces the period with a underscore
> 
> We use our remote LPD software to write the data file out to a file. Other
> system that send lpr files to our LPD server leave the period in place.
> 
> part of the debug log
> D [10/Feb/2006:10:25:20 -0600] StartJob: argv = "prt01","11","root","mydoc.pdf","1","","/var/spool/cups/d00011-001"
> 
> The control file that is sent to the remote lpd server shows it with a underscore also.  Is there some way to prevent this.

This is done on purpose to sanitize the job title to conform to RFC
1179.  Look in the lpd backend sources if you'd like to change it.

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