From: Chris Sharman [Chris.Sharman@CCAgroup.co.uk]
Sent: Friday, December 10, 1999 6:47 AM
To: Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com
Cc: hoffman@xdelta.zko.dec.com
Subject: Re: dcps/msap type forms via lpd protocol

djesys wrote:
> 
> Chris Sharman wrote:
> >
> > This has been on my wish list a long time, and I got round
> > to hacking together some postscript yesterday.
> >
> > Seems the lpd symbiont honours & uses a library, so I wrote
> > a few modules: basically just 50 line postscript setup which
> > then reads the rest of the input (ie the printable text file)
> > as text and lays it out as required.
> >
> > I wanted compatibility with msap, so I've implemented suitable
> > prologs for LTR_12 (66*80), LPT_GRAY (66*132) and a few other
> > oddments we use. It draws an enclosing box, grey bars, and
> > numbers pages.
> >
> > It doesn't support numberup, or page setups, and I haven't
> > found a suitable job name for display (nothing in jobname in
> > statusdict).
> >
> > Does anyone know if the lpd protocol passes any kind of job
> > identification, and where I could find it from Postscript ?
> >
> > Is this stuff worth submitting to the freeware disk, since there
> > doesn't seem to be any danger of dcps supporting lpd ?
> 
> DEFINITELY! Submit it! ...even post it somewhere, if you can! Sounds
> like good stuff!

Now does numberup, for tree-killing managers you want to go blind ...
Enclosed: unzip, make into a .tlb, and define appropriate forms to use
it. lpt_graybar_page_setup & msap$ctrl_d (both empty) included for
compatibility with our msap forms. Set the lpd queue to use the
library & use an appropriate mounted/default form.

Chris