[cups.general] LPD Options not passed to backend script!

[Michael R Sweet]

ciaran wrote:
> Hi All,
> I wrote a backend script in perl  for Cups.
> I want to be able to send the file to another application, with some
> options.
> If I do a local print with an option, my script receives the options.
> For example I execute "lp -dCAT -o ZZZZZZ testprint.txt"
> my script receives the parameter-list:
>     88 cde testprint.txt 1 ZZZZZZ /var/spool/cups/d00088-001
> However when I use LPD remote printing from another Unix
> (or with a simple loopback LPD printer declaration) my
> script receives
>     90 cde testprint_txt 1 document-name=testprint_txt /var/spool/cups/d00090-001

The LPD protocol does not support options.

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Michael R Sweet                        Senior Printing System Engineer