Re: scs2ps

[Scott Klement <klemscot@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Jason M. Felice wrote:

> - I'm thinking abstractly about having an lp5250d `filter' option, which
>   determines whether to prefilter the output to the print command with
> some
>   pipe to a shell script (and lp5250d and the shell script would handle
> the
>   command line options).  So, for example, you'd say lp5250 filter=pdf
> ...,
>   and lp5250d would look for /usr/libexec/tn5250/pdf.filter and run it.
>   pdf.filter would look like:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> scs2ps "$@" |ps2pdf
> 
>   That way we could easily implement filter=fax, filter=ps,
> filter=ascii,
> filter=scs (just a passthrough filter), filter=tiff or whatever.  Does
> this
> make sense?
> 

You mean you want to use "filter=" instead of "outputcommand=" ??  
What would be the advantage of this method?



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