By the way, you might peek at the text formats in the latest
postings -
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Herriot, Hastings, , [Page 2]
Jacobs, Martin Expires May 16, 1999
INTERNET DRAFT Mapping between LPD and IPP ProtocolsNovember 16, 1998
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Note 1: comma on the page line appears spurious.
Note 2: overlap of Protocols and November
Note: there are several places where a period appears spuriously:
Example:
file sub-command..
This looks like an artifact of the text conversion process.
COMMENT:
The LPR print request control file is required to have
N fields, which are the <file name> value referred to
in the document.
The <file name> is used in the various status requests,
reports etc. I would like to suggest that the value of the N
field be managed as follows:
LPR -> IPP: replace all spaces, non-Latin characters,
by underscores
IPP -> LPQ: remove all spaces, non-Latin characters,
by underscores
COMMENT:
I would like to suggest that the mappings from LPD document-formats
to IPP formats be made explicitly administratively configurable.
This would allow gateways to determine the type of document and
generate a more reasonable mapping for printing.
COMMENT:
Original:
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The follow LPD functions specify document-formats which have no IPP
equivalent, unless someone registers them. The LPD-to-IPP mapper rejects
jobs that request such a document format, and the IPP-to-LPD mapper does
not send them.
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Suggested:
The follow LPD functions specify document-formats which have no IPP
equivalent, unless someone registers them. The LPD-to-IPP mapper MAY reject
jobs that request such a document format, or replace them with an
administratively specified document-format. The IPP-to-LPD mapper MAY
generate document-format values for IPP document types by means of administrative
configuration.
REASONS: The above wording allows support of non-supported values to be
done in a administratively configured manner. The MAY does not force
support of this capability.
Patrick Powell Astart Technologies,
papowell@astart.com 9475 Chesapeake Drive, Suite D,
Network and System San Diego, CA 92123
Consulting 619-874-6543 FAX 619-279-8424
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