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I have a remote printer setup on my linux box which prints to a printer on a NCR MP-RAS v3.02 (SVR4 much like UNIXWARE) box. When I print to that printer, I get the following love letter from the NCR box: Your printer job (itin.out) could not be printed. Reason for failure: UX:lpd: ERROR: The following options can't be handled: -h TO FIX: The printer(s) that otherwise qualify for printing your request can't handle one or more of these options. Try another printer, or change the options. I'm using lpr-0.41-2 from rawhide rebuilt on my RH 6.0 machine. the /etc/printcap entry looks like this: ##PRINTTOOL3## REMOTE TEXT NAxNA letter {} TextPrinter Default {} lineptr:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lineptr:\ :mx#0:\ :sh:\ :rm=landru:\ :rp=lineptr:\ :if=/var/spool/lpd/lineptr/filter: As far as I can remember, this worked fine with RH 5.2 but I don't remember which version of lpr/lpd I was using when it worked... :(
Can you turn on DEBUG_TREE & DEBUG_FILTER in the filter file to try and get some more information? Thanks.
Changed /var/spool/lpd/lineptr/filter to define the DEBUG variables. Printed using this command: lpr -Plineptr /etc/issue Filter DEBUG results: # cat /tmp/filter.debug Desired print format is asc Paper size is letter A form feed will not be sent. Magic is | ASCII text| Magic is | ASCII text| Type of file is INPUT-to-asc Best path of depth is cat - | asc-to-printer.fpi Another love letter from NCR (SVR4) box: Your printer job (issue) could not be printed. Reason for failure: UX:lpd: ERROR: The following options can't be handled: -h TO FIX: The printer(s) that otherwise qualify for printing your request can't handle one or more of these options. Try another printer, or change the options.
Just a quick note: upgrading to lpr-0.43-2 did not help. :( Let me know if there is anything you would like me to do...
What happens if you take the :sh: out of the printcap?
What happens? Well, it works, that what happens!! :) Thanks much! When printing to a SVR4 lpd printer, remove :sh:?? Works for me...
The 'sh' is the suppress headers option; apparently, when sending that to the SVR4 lpd, it translated that into a '-h' option, which it didn't like. Sorry it took so long to come up with this solution.