On Fri, 26 Feb 2010, Bill Tillman wrote:
Your answers are usually spot on but this is one of those difficult times when the Windows and Linux guys at work laugh their asses off at me for being such a FreeBSD die-hard.
That's like laughing at a chef when fast food is available.
So I added the standard #!/bin/sh line to the beginning of the ps2pcl
Doh. Time for me to create an article on this to avoid mistakes like that.
file and nothing printed, not even error messages about what happened.
This probably means it works. The ps2pcl filter expects PostScript input; it doesn't auto-format like apsfilter. So format your print jobs in PS first. Many applications do that already (OpenOffice), or there are conversion programs like enscript (print/enscript-letter) for text.
% enscript testfile.txt Will format testfile.txt into PS and send it to the lp printer. This works for me here--I reconnected my printer via USB to try it. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
