[LUNI] lpr question?

[Martin Maney]

On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 09:11:50AM -0800, Richard Reina wrote:
> Is there a way to make the name of a file appear at the top ( or bottom 
> ) of  the page when a file is printed?

Yes, but doing it through LPR only works if you're printing plain text. 
Most likely you're printing what is, to the spooler, magic goop (read:
postscript).  At that level there's no easy way to attach such
information, and the original filename probably isn't anywhere handy
anyway.  The cost of giving the application full control over page
rendering is that attaching the original file name, etc, becomes a job
for the application.

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