data file name has underscore substituted for period

[Anonymous]

> 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.
>
> --
> ______________________________________________________________________
> Michael Sweet, Easy Software Products           mike at easysw dot com
> Internet Printing and Document Software          http://www.easysw.com


we found it.  thanks for the info.


tom schoeder