Where do I ask for a new printer utility?

[Asheville Joe]

Vlok, thanks for the great leads.  I found a utility qtcups which has 
been superceded by kprinter.  Running either with --help (or --help-all 
with kprinter) gives a little information, but I haven't found any more 
documentation on them.  I tried to get kprinter to work, but could not 
figure out how to get the <Page set> option (even or odd) or the Reverse 
option to be set from the command line.  (They are in the gui just 
fine.)  The command does have a --nodialog option, so if I could figure 
out how to set the other two options, I'd be just about there!  All I'd 
have to do is call it once with odd, reverse, nodialog and then again 
with even (and let the dialog pop up so I could wait for first print to 
finish).

Questions:  Is there any better documentation of these commands 
(especially usage examples) anywhere (or do I have to try to puzzle out 
the source code)?  Does anyone know how to talk to it from the command line?

The other article mentions a nifty command called lpspr that apparently 
does exactly what I want and some other nifty things as well.  However, 
a search on Freshmeat, Sourceforge, and Google found nothing but that 
same article - at least in English.

Question: Where (if anywhere) does lpspr live (maybe on commercial Unix 
only?) and how do I get it?

Joe

vlok stone wrote:

>Since you're using Mandrake 
>try here  
>http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/hardware/hcups10.html#noduplextip
>or 
>http://www.mssl.ucl.ac.uk/www_computing/buns/unix_printing.html
>
>
>--- Asheville Joe <josephj at main.nc.us> wrote:
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>
>>Hi.  I could really use a utility that does
>>essentially what xpp does, 
>>but is callable from a script such as bash.  As far
>>as I know, one does 
>>not exist and after taking a look at the 26 pages of
>>code behind xpp, I 
>>was quickly convinced that I wasn't going to write
>>it myself!
>>
>>Is there somewhere appropriate where I could post a
>>request for what I want?
>>
>>All I actually want to do is emulate double sided
>>printing on my printer 
>>the way Windoze does.  I can do it now manually with
>>xpp, but it's very 
>>cumbersome and error prone.  It seems to me that a
>>duplex printing 
>>emulator is something a large number of users would
>>appreciate having.  
>>It is definitely a desktop application as opposed to
>>a server 
>>application, but Linux on the desktop is an
>>objective for many in the 
>>open software community.
>>
>>As far as I can tell, all it requires (aside from
>>the normal hassle of 
>>parsing command line parameters and error checking)
>>is a bunch of calls 
>>to CUPS.  That's a bit more than I can figure out at
>>this point, but for 
>>someone who knows what they're doing, it's
>>conceptually simple.
>>
>>In fact, if I could just fake console input to xpp,
>>it would be ugly, 
>>but it would work as long as I could wait for the
>>first xpp to finish 
>>(and for me to flip the paper around) before running
>>the second xpp to 
>>print the other sides.  Then, the only outstanding
>>issue would be 
>>figuring out if there was an odd number of total
>>pages so I could print 
>>a blank page at the end to eject the last sheet.
>>
>>Arer there any keyboard/mouse "macro" automation
>>tools that could do 
>>this?  I know they have existed as far back as CP/M
>>and MSDOS and have 
>>even seen (but not used) some for Windoze.  Software
>>testers like these 
>>things so thay can do the same sequence of events
>>over and over until 
>>they get it right.
>>
>>I put a message on linuxprinting.org and got several
>>helpful responses 
>>from Till Kamppeter (the author of xpp), but no help
>>with emulating.
>>
>>Any ideas?
>>
>>Thanks.
>>
>>
>>Joe
>>
>>    
>>
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