Re: CTAN submission `printmagic'

Nearly a month ago, Frank Bennett wrote:

> I've just put two files, printmagic.tar and CONTACT,
> on  ftp.tex.ac.uk:/incoming.
> 
> The tar file contains a terse README and three other files (printcap,
> a magic filter script, and a bash script.  Together with other
> utilities, mentioned in comments to the printcap, these show
> how to set up a Linux print queue to which vanilla PC users
> on a Novell LAN can submit print jobs to LaTeX without having
> any access to LaTeX itself.  Log files for failed jobs are returned
> to the user via email.  Almost as good as being there...
> 
> The CONTACT file is an afterthought; I forgot to include my
> email address in the tar file.
> 
> Although this is a fairly trivial set of stuff, perhaps it
> should be announced to the list --- even if the programming
> is more or less trivial, this particular combination of
> utilities might not have occurred to folks.

The tar file turned out not to contain all it claimed to contain, and
(as is my wont with things that aren't entirely trivial) the upload
fell off the back of my mind.

The stuff is now installed at ftp.tex.ac.uk as support/printmagic

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team