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bdittmar
I did just that and it says:
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a utility to allow to to bypass the various network printing utilities
and i suppose it did just that: i do not know for certain what happened (not enough data for that), but my supposition is that the
netcat-script you use bypasses the printing system so effectively that the job is not removed from the printqueue at all.
Usually a print queue works like this: there is a place where files to be printed (=sent to the printer) are dropped. There is a daemon (usually
lpd) which picks up the file and - upon successful procession (=printing worked) removes it, otherwise issues an error message and does not remove it.
What fails, IMHO, is that the
netcat-script needs to tell the
lpd (or whatever you use in its place) about the successful (or unsuccessful) printing of the job so that the print file can be removed based on this.
I hope this helps.
bakunin