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How can I do it in UNIX
voidmain:
quote:Originally posted by www.unixsucks.com:
Now I got it. THere is a ghostscript which converts postscript to PDF. So it is in fact 3d party software and you did not write it. So why you claiming it to be your child?
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Ghostscript comes with every Linux distro dude, I never said I wrote Ghostscript. I did write an *extremely* small shell script that captures incoming print jobs to the print queue (the one that looks like a Color LaserJet on a Windows NT server), convert it to PDF, email the attachment back to the user with the first page of the document showing up as text in the message body. All automatically.
Now that you have *many* hints. How are you going to do this in Windows?
www.unixsucks.com:
How important is that it comes with OS? It's a tiny download.
If the point was that Windows does not come with ghostscript and Linux does then you made it. I don't really see how it make Linux any better compared with Windows. Windows comes with print certificate server, sniffer, print services for MAC, file sharing for Mac, does Linux?
voidmain:
I'll even let you download Ghostscript. This little project will allow you to do anything you want as long as you meet the criteria. I just want to know how you would do it. And to answer your questions: yes, yes, yes, yes. And support for Netware, Windows, other UNIX systems, etc, etc, etc...
www.unixsucks.com:
Here is how it is done
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/redmon/en/redmon.htm#274
Listen, this is new to me and it'll take time for me to learn but as of now I can see that it can be done. If you talking about how would identify people then I guess output which is generated by that program is owner by owner of print job which can be extracted by Script, then you query AD for that person, find his email address and send it back.
Master of Reality:
of course you'd add to the NT domain logon script to have this queue automatically connected when the users log in. SO that no work will be required by the user to be given this new ability.
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