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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Catching print jobs. Post 302227988 by miguel77mex on Friday 22nd of August 2008 11:35:24 AM
Old 08-22-2008
Catching print jobs.
Hi,

I am wondering how to catch print jobs to process them before been served to the printer.

I was told that the challenge is to catch raw text that an old legacy application sends to the printer (invoices, quotes, etc) and save them as text files to allow a new application to process them doing diferent new stuff that the old app can not.

We need to try this approach because there are no people that can change the legacy app's code. The client is thinking on change the app but we need to offer a solution now.

Does anybody konws how to do that?

Thanks in advance.
 

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lprm

lprm(1)                                                             Apple Inc.                                                             lprm(1)

NAME

       lprm - cancel print jobs

SYNOPSIS

       lprm [ -E ] [ -U username ] [ -h server[:port] ] [ -P destination[/instance] ] [ - ] [ job ID(s) ]

DESCRIPTION

       lprm  cancels  print  jobs that have been queued for printing.  If no arguments are supplied, the current job on the default destination is
       cancelled. You can specify one or more job ID numbers to cancel those jobs or use the - option to cancel all jobs.

OPTIONS

       The lprm command supports the following options:

       -E
            Forces encryption when connecting to the server.

       -P destination[/instance]
            Specifies the destination printer or class.

       -U username
            Specifies an alternate username.

       -h server[:port]
            Specifies an alternate server.

COMPATIBILITY

       The CUPS version of lprm is compatible with the standard Berkeley lprm command.

SEE ALSO

       cancel(1), lp(1), lpq(1), lpr(1), lpstat(1),
       http://localhost:631/help

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright 2007-2011 by Apple Inc.

28 August 2009                                                         CUPS                                                                lprm(1)
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