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For anyone that might be interested, five years later SCO has finally made
an effort to fix filters with printcap in OpenServer.

I don't have the ambition to try it, as I'm really happy using netcat.

Here's the email I received from them:

Gary,

re: lpd and filters

I am happy to announce that we have a new lpd that we have tested and found
to 
function normally with filters on SCO Open Server 5.0.5. I am placing the
new
lpd binary at ftpput.caldera.com/tmp/828940. After download the file should be
the following permissions and size;

-rws--x--x      1 root  bin     86288   lpd

We were able to use filters properly when having the "of" param in 
/etc/printcap point directly to the "executable" filter. The following is
an
example of a filter we used and then an example of our /etc/printcap file;

# vi /filter/828940
#!/bin/sh
exec /bin/hd

# vi /etc/printcap
rhea.lpd:\

:lp=:rm=rhea.uss.caldera.com:rp=rhea.lpd:sd=/usr/spool/lpd/rhea.lpd:mx#0:of=/filter/828940:

We used /bin/hd and /usr/bin/xtod in the 828940 filter and got the desired 
output when printing.

We are very interested to see this work for you. Please reply at your
earliest
convenience with the results.

Regards,
Michael Stokes
SCO Support Engineer II

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