On Friday 16 May 2008, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: >On Thursday 15 May 2008, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: >> Gene Heskett wrote: >>> Its beginning to look as if I'm going to have to write a filter to break >>> it up into say 60 line pages & send them to lpr one 'file' at a time. >>> There apparently is not a way to send a valid EOF from the other end >>> unless someone can decode a '^Z' into a value I can try just for grins. >> >> A ^Z is 26 decimal or 1A hex. But I think you want to send a ^D (4) >> to indicate a UNIX EOF. (You can change this with stty.) > >I got to thinking about this and there may be an easy fix for this. >Take a look at the data being sent and see if they are sending a ^Z >at the end of each "page". If so, you can probably use stty to >change the EOF to ^Z instead of ^D. You will probably have to change >the suspend character first from ^Z to something else. (I have only >tested it on the local tty and only with changing eof...) > >stty -F <device> susp ^Y ; stty -F <device> eof ^Z > or >stty -F <device> susp ^Y eof ^Z > The data stream that a 'dir -e bigdir >/p' is not paginated in any way. But we've worked out a usable solution without requiring special setups on the src machine that works very well, all in about 110 lines of bash code running as a daemon here. And that was the itch that needed scratching. There were some hints from here, and I warmly thank all those that answered, but I have to give about 95% of the credit to a member of the amanda-user list, Jon LaBadie, who is an absolute script genius. >Mikkel -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke. -- Steve Martin -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
