On Monday 03 March 2003 22:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> This may have been answered previously, but my archive doesnt go
> back far enough to find it.
>
> When I do a dvips <filename>
>
> Instead of being routed to the printer, I get the error message:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unisys]$ dvips test.dvi
> This is dvips(k) 5.86 Copyright 1999 Radical Eye Software
> (www.radicaleye.com) ' TeX output 2003.03.03:1429' -> |lpr
> dvips: ! couldn't open output pipe
>
> and strace shows that itis trying to open |lpr as mentioned in the
> config.ps file.
>
> So how did they break this?
> and is there a fix?

That is the default behaviour of dvips set in a configuraton-file. It's not 
broken. Solution:

dvips filename.dvi -o filename.ps

or comment out the line 

o|lpr

in the file /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/config.ps



-- 
Øystein Olsen, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://folk.uio.no/oeysteio
Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, http://www.astro.uio.no
University of Oslo, Norway



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