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Subject:    SUMMARY: capability pw#
From:       Antonia Gomez <antonia () fib ! upc ! es>
Date:       1995-09-30 18:06:38
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Subject: SUMMARY: capability pw#
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From: Antonia Gomez <antonia@fib.upc.es>
Subject: SUMMARY: capability pw#
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Hello!

My message was:
>
>Hello!
>
>My problem is:
>
>I have defined in the file /etc/printcap the capability :
>       pw#80
>however, when  I send to print some file with lines of more 80
characters,
>this capability is not respected, always printing more of 80
characters.
>
>Anybody can help me?
>
>Thanks in advanced.
>

The answers are:

Knut Helleboe:
	If you print to a remote printer usually no locally added
	filters/capabilities will work remotely.

Granse:
	if your printer is an remote printer (rm=<hostname> in the printcap,
	then the pw of the remote host is used.

Barry Treahy:
	My experience has allways been that the PW only impacts the
	size/positioning of the banner page.

Sean Watson:
	The pw# and pl# printcap entries are simply passed to the input filter
	(if=xxx).  If you don't specify a filter, output is simple passed on 
	unmodified (and the length entry is ignored).  If you do have a filter,
	but it ignores the -w flag (-l for length), you will have similar 
	problems.

	The output filter also gets -w and -l (as set in pw# and pl#) so you
	can do the filtering there also.

	If you use the c, d, g, f, n, t, or v options on lpr, you will get the
	cf, df, gf, rf, nf, tf, or vf filter and it will be passed values from
	px# and py# (page size in pixels).

Phil Krause:
	In the documentation for printcap read up on if & of.
	EX.         :if=/usr/lbin/lg31of -w80 -l59:\
	This will keeep the length of line (width) to 80 and the
	number of lines to 59.

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Thank you very much and specially to Sean Watson.

Bye!

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