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From: David Chappell <David.Chappell@mail.cc.trincoll.edu>
Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2002 14:51:56 -0500
Subject: Re: PPR: Installing a custom filter

CSBURRIS@ci.tacoma.wa.us wrote:

>I have a SVR4 filter (very simple - a perl program that reads from stdin and
>writes to stdout -no options). I need to get it to work with PPR, but if
>there is a way to install a new filter, it escapes me. Just copying it into
>the ./lib/filters subdirectory evidently is not all.
>
>Celeste Suliin Burris
>Systems Administrator
>Tacoma Economic Development Dept.
>csburris@ci.tacoma.wa.us
>
Unfortunately, this part of PPR needs to be reworked.  If you make a 
filter for an already-defined file-type, then it is sufficient to copy 
it into the lib/filters/ directory.  However, defining a new file type 
requires editing ppr/ppr_infile.c.  Just add a #define for it and add it 
to the table and recompile.

Suggestions on how to improve the filter system would be welcome.  I 
want to the one to support MIME types and user defined types.

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