Do you have gs (or preferably gs-aladdin) installed? That is necessary for the man -t output to print, since -t converts it to PostScript.
Keep at it and you will soon learn the Unix/Linux commands. Most of us started from a DOS background. Bob On Wed, 18 Nov 1998, Alan Tam wrote: > Hi Bob, > > Thank you for your info, but the command ' man -t printcap|lpr ' > didn't work. > With your hint I tried ' man printcap|lpr ' it works. Printing perfectly > without any stepping at all. > > Thanks anyway. Since I am new to Linux, I don't know the command > style in Unix/GNU/Linux. Now I know the symbol '|' means piping. In Dos > I usually use > 'type printcap > lpt1' and that will print to the printer. > > Thank you. > > Alan > > On Tue, 17 Nov 1998, Alan Tam wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > Is there a filter for HP Deskjet 660C in the Debian Packages ? > > > So far I can get from magicfilter_1.2-24.deb is dj550c-filter. > > > > I am trying to print the manual pages through my HP Deskjet > > 660c. A > > question on how to eliminate the stepping effect when I issue the > > command > > man printcap > /dev/lp1 > > The reason you are getting the stepping is that this is going as raw > data > to the printer, not through any filter. You need to pipe it through lpr, > > not send it directly to /dev/lp1. > > The ghostscript printer compatibility page > (http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/printer.html) indicates that the cdj550 > driver (which is called by dj550c-filter) is the correct one to use with > > the 660C, so you should use the dj550c-filter in magicfilter. > > To print a man page, use 'man -t printcap|lpr'. > > > > > From the Printing-HowTo, there is an example > > #!perl > > #The above line should really have the whole path to perl > > #This script must be executable: chmod 755 filter > > while (<STDIN>){chop $_; print "$_\r\n";); > > #You might also want to end with a form feed: print "\f"; > > > > Should I leave the STDIN as is or replace it with lp1 or something > else > > ? > > The easy way is to let magicfilter do the work for you. > > Bob > > ---- > Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen > > > > > ---- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
