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From: david@utzoo.UUCP (David Trueman)
Newsgroups: hacknews
Subject: spooler and daemon changes
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Date: Wed, 20-Mar-85 17:42:28 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 20 17:42:28 1985
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The spoolers(1) now recognize a restriction option (-r) which specifies
special requirements for a particular print job.  These might include
a particular font, letterhead, labels, etc.  If any restriction is 
requested, the job is printed only if that restriction is matched by
the contents of the ``restrict'' file in the spool directory.

The spoolers(1) (lpr, hpr ...) now check for sequentially numbered
sub-directories in the spooler directory.  If one or more exists,
the restrictions listed are checked against restrictions requested
by the user with the new `-r' option.  The spooler tries to match
the requests, leaving total mismatches in the last sub-directory.

The effect of all this is that we can now run our two laser printers
with a single spooler (hpr) that recognizes to which printer a particular
job should be sent.

Ms(1) generates appropriate restrictions.
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				David Trueman @ U of Toronto Zoology
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