[cups.general] Filtering lpd print files
Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
allbery at ece.cmu.edu
Thu Jan 4 03:03:48 PST 2007
On Jan 4, 2007, at 4:16 , Opher Shachar wrote:
> Hello all,
> We have remote hosts sending plain text files to the CUPS lpd server.
> We need to filter the received files prior to printing through CUPS.
> How is this done?
Run cups-lpd with the -o option to set a MIME type for all received
files, and define a filter for that MIME type if necessary in
mime.convs. Or set it to application/octet-stream and CUPS will try
to intuit an appropriate MIME type.
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brandon s. allbery [linux,solaris,freebsd,perl] allbery at kf8nh.com
system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery at ece.cmu.edu
electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH
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