Print job names...

[Doug Douglass]

>
> I experience the truncating too. But I think the problem is lying in the
> underlying printing subsystem.
>
> Just look:
>
> odenbach at robin[~]>>echo bla | lpr
> -J'1234567890123456789012345678901234567890'
>
> This print job name has a length of 40 characters.
>
> odenbach at robin[~]>>lpq
> Printer: lw_sw_rbg_1_F0_113 at pooh (dest lw_sw_rbg_1_F0_113 at pooh)
> 'HP LaserJet 5MP in F0.113' (printing disabled)
>  Queue: 1 printable job
>  Server: no server active
>  Status: server finished at 12:29:34
>  Rank   Owner/ID                   Class Job  Files
> Size Time
> 1       odenbach at robin+184            A  184
> 12345678901234567890123 4 08:48:01
>

Here's my lpq output from the same command as above:

Printer: mopier at bluto (printing disabled) (dest text at mopier)
 Queue: 2 printable jobs
 Server: no server active
 Status: job 'cfA668bluto.internal.denverdata.com' removed at 08:45:57.014
 Rank   Owner/ID                  Class Job Files                 Size Time
1      doug at bluto+690               A   690 123456789012345678901234 4
08:50:40


And, if I print an MS Word doc from a windows client (2K SP2) i see the
following:

Printer: mopier at bluto (printing disabled) (dest text at mopier)
 Queue: 2 printable jobs
 Server: no server active
 Status: job 'cfA668bluto.internal.denverdata.com' removed at 08:45:57.014
 Rank   Owner/ID                  Class Job Files                 Size Time
1      doug at bluto+690               A   690 123456789012345678901234 4
08:50:40
2      doug at bluto+700               A   700 Microsoft Word - GEAE 1942
08:51:52

Truncated as expected.

BUT, it displays just fine in the printer queue dialog box on the client.

> lpq just gives me the first 23 characters of the job name. This is also
> the number of characters that are visible in windows - which is not very
> surprising as Samba just parses the output of lpq.
>                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I think based on my evidence above that your statement that Samba "just
parses the output of lpq" is not correct. Either the client or samba is
probably only interested the job numbers output by lpq (?)

That said, look back at the list of OS/software versions I'm running,
perhaps my LDAP patched samba has more than just LDAP patches????

> So the interesting question is: How does the output of lpq look like with
> a system that does not truncate the job name?
>
> Regards,
>
> Christopher
>
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