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A new magic filter - version 1.0
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Sat Mar 18 12:12:50 1995
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 1995 17:27:09 +0200
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-activists@niksula.hut.fi, linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
X-Mn-Key: announce
From: hpa@trantor.yggdrasil.com (H. Peter Anvin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Subject: A new magic filter - version 1.0
Organization: none
Keywords: lpd magicfilter printing automatic
Approved: linux-announce@news.ornl.gov (Lars Wirzenius)
Followup-to: comp.os.linux.setup
There have been several different "magic filters" -- automatic printer
filters -- available for use with Linux. Unfortunately, most of them
seem to have a limited number of data and/or printer types hard-coded
in. This one is a development of a magic filter I wrote nearly two
years ago for local use, which was preconfigured at compile time. It
has been extended to support configuration files, which can easily be
extended to support any data type you have a converter for and know
how to identify. It even supports emailing nastygrams to users who
try to print things like executables and tar files. :-)
Sample configurations for HP LaserJet 4 series and HP DeskJet 550C are
included; converting this to the printer of your choice should be
quite simple.
/hpa
LSM entry included:
Begin3
Title: magicfilter
Version: 1.0
Entered-date: 17MAR95
Description: A customizable, extensible automatic printer filter.
Lets you automatically detect and print just about any
data type you can find a conversion utility for. This
filter is written in C and is controlled completely
from an external printer configuration file.
Keywords: lpd magicfilter printing automatic
Author: H. Peter Anvin <Peter.Anvin@linux.org>
Maintained-by: H. Peter Anvin <Peter.Anvin@linux.org>
Primary-site: sunsite.unc.edu
25208 /pub/Linux/system/Printing/magicfilter-1.0.tar.gz
Alternate-site:
Original-site:
Platform: POSIX
Copying-policy: GPL
End
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