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If you disable banners in the lp command, the system will set
the ${nobanner} option to yes. This will suppress the NIC
banner generation.
If you don't define the FILTER shell variable in your interface
file, you can usually modify it to pipe data to
nicfilter
. The
simplest way to accomplish this is to enclose the entire script
in parentheses and pipe it to
nicfilter
, using the arguments
described above.
If you wish to use the banner generated by the interface file,
simply omit the last four arguments.
Installing & Printing on a SCO UNIX System
Installation and setup is similar for HP/UX and SCO UNIX
systems. The NIC solution uses a network direct filter called
nicfilter
. The system invokes
nicfilter
directly from the
printer interface file.
After completing software download in the section
Loading
the Software
(page 5-32) you
must
configure the printer and
make it known to the lp system. Follow the steps below:
1. Run the Installation script by typing:
nicinst
.
The script automatically downloads the correct NIC
utilities for your particular system and prompts you for
information as needed.
Note
These arguments are shell variables from the interface file.
They may have different names (names used above are from
the standard interface file supplied with most Version 2 and
i386 systems).
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