[cups.general] viewing jobs in distant queue
Michael Sweet
mike at easysw.com
Thu Jun 1 05:08:14 PDT 2006
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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