[cups.general] viewing jobs in distant queue

[Michael Sweet]

Tim Waugh wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 08:54 +0200, Johannes Meixner wrote:
> 
>> Not with the lpq command of CUPS because this "speaks" only IPP.
> 
> I wonder why the lpd backend doesn't hang around until the remote job
> has finished though?  Couldn't it use the new back-channel data bits to
> communicate the job status?

Sadly, the LPD protocol doesn't return a job ID, and the remote status
call doesn't offer a standard format that we can parse to monitor when
a job is completed...

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