[cups.general] each jobs get a paper with "-en % !" printed

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On Sep 18, 2008, at 15:35 , Guido wrote:
> *FoomaticRIPCommandLine: "level=%D; echo -en "%!\n%% %%\n 
> %C"&&
> ; if (( $level > 0 )); then if (( $level < 99 )); then  
> level=&qu&&
> ot; -dLanguageLevel=$level"; else level=""; fi; gs -q  
> -&&
> dPARANOIDSAFER -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pswrite$level%A%Z - 
> sOutputFi&&
> le=- -; else cat; fi"
>
>  The echo command on a Solaris host does not accept any flags (eg: - 
> en) so that entire statement after echo is seen as the content to  
> echo.   I can remove the -en flags from the ppd file and the extra  
> page does not print but I'm wondering if that will cause some other  
> unforseen problem and if modifying the ppd files in this fashion is  
> considered safe?


You need to remove the -en parameter and end the echoed string with  
"\c".

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electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university    KF8NH