I have a question regarding a printer script problem I am trying
to resolve. My company has a postscript file that is produced from
Oracle and prints custom timesheets. For some reason, it has a default
call for A4 paper - this errors out the print job and some printers
handle it and we can override and print while other printers don't and
the output is flushed at the device.

I wrote a custom backend for AIX that includes a substitution of
'letter' for 'exec - or A4'. This fixed that error but created
another. All landscape print was directed to this and other problems
resulted. So, I wrote a test to see if the file was a postscript or
not, but this required a relative variable -

if [[ `head -1 $@ | grep -i Adobe | echo $?` = 0 ]];then
print "We have hit"
fi

The sed substitution would go on the "We have hit" line.

The problem now is that I can't get the script to recognize and pass
the relative var for the printfile to the enclosed head command. So I
tried another call with:

cat /etc/motd > /tmp/motd.out

This will produce output if I run it from the command line against a
canned printfile. But it won't produce output if generated by the
qdaemon from Oracle. So I am having trouble debugging this.

Do you know anyone who has print and Kornshell expertise that I could
talk to about this?

Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

Thanks,

>>if [[ `head -1 $@ | grep -i Adobe | echo $?` = 0 ]];then
>>print "We have hit"
>>fi

this is ugly.....and it wont work (you should use Adobe ; echo $?)

try using

if head -1 $@ | grep -i adobe >/dev/null
then
print "we have hit"
fi

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