The general message is: if you are new to unix, watch out for line continuation characters (I know I read something describing them that way somewhere, and mayby in certain types of config files they are, but...). They are really escape characters that refer specifically to the newline THAT MUST FOLLOW THEM IMMEDIATELY. ie if there is a white space character (or any other character for that matter) after the escape character and before the newline, the newline won't get escaped. This may in some cases cause you all sorts of subtle problems that seem certain to be due to something else. At least so the reaction of magicfilter seemed to me, which is I guess the only thing that makes this message in any way relevant to the subject printer & ghostscript.
Anthony Fok has been extremely helpful, sending copies of his /etc/printcap and magicfilter filter files (which I cut and paste producing the above error). Thanks Anthony, I'm sorry if my last question was a bit abrupt. I'm the modern manifestation of what an author of the romantic era would have called a passionate person: I go insane with frustrated rage when my computer won't work the way I think it should. Britton Kerin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
