On Sunday 29 January 2006 10:54, maxim wexler wrote: > > One option to solve this is to emerge unix2dos and > > use the following command > > line: > > > > unix2dos filetoprint.txt | lp -l > > After removing and re-installing cups and installing > unix2dos got this: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ unix2dos environment | lpr -l > unix2dos: converting file environment to DOS format > ... > unix2dos: problems converting file environment > lpr: error - scheduler not responding! > > I was sure it was because I had neglected to go to > localhost631 first but > trying to open the page in firefox got "connection > refused" error. > > Only thing that comes to mind is that when I did > emerge -pv cups it said some file(can't recall which) > was being blocked by xpdf which I don't use so I > removed it and cups went in OK. Long shot.
Sounds like cups wasn't started - does "/etc/init.d/cups restart" show any errors? The command line to unix2dos may need to be unix2dos <environment | lpr -l or cat environment | unix2dos | lpr -l -- Manuel A. McLure KE6TAW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.mclure.org> ...for in Ulthar, according to an ancient and significant law, no man may kill a cat. -- H.P. Lovecraft -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
