Re: man pages in wordpad (a new thought)

1999-11-12 Thread Dorit Ben-Shalom
>Well, that's pretty logical. Windows and Unix Ghostscript mostly use the >same drivers, so if Windows GS would directly support your printer, the >Linux GS probably would too :-) That's pretty logical, but it doesn't work: jobs appear in lpq and then disppear without a trace. Does this mean the

Re: man pages in wordpad (a new thought)

1999-11-09 Thread Gavrie Philipson
dorit ben shalom wrote: > > Actually, > my HP 3100 is _so_ proprietry, > that my _windows_ ghostview has > to use the generic mswinpr2 protocol. > > Does this mean that it is compatible > with anything more generic in linux? Well, that's pretty logical. Windows and Unix Ghostscript mostly use t

Re: man pages in wordpad (a new thought)

1999-11-09 Thread dorit ben shalom
Actually, my HP 3100 is _so_ proprietry, that my _windows_ ghostview has to use the generic mswinpr2 protocol. Does this mean that it is compatible with anything more generic in linux? Thanks (I hope you are not fed up with this topic already) Dorit ==

Re: man pages in wordpad

1999-11-08 Thread Dorit Ben-Shalom
>You may be able to find an old 386 or 486 to use as a printer driver. By the way, I didn't get another computer, but I did 'borrow' a colleague's old HP 3P. (but that only works for at work :) Thanks again Dorit = To unsubscribe,

man pages in wordpad

1999-11-03 Thread dorit ben shalom
Hi guys I bought the only HP printer around that is not very likely to have a linux driver anytime soon. So I find myself printing man pages in wordpad. They turn out OK apart from boldface (?) where every character c turns into \Box c \Box c. Any simple conversion I can do to prevent this

Re: man pages in wordpad

1999-01-04 Thread guy keren
On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, dorit ben shalom wrote: > I bought the only HP printer around that is not very likely > to have a linux driver anytime soon. > So I find myself printing man pages in wordpad. > They turn out OK apart from boldface (?) > where every character c turns into >

man pages in wordpad (solved)

1999-01-02 Thread dorit ben shalom
Hi guys The ps solution works beutifully. Thanks to everybody for pitching in. Dorit 'My life is a constant work around. I just wish I knew arount _what_.' = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscr

Re: man pages in wordpad

1999-01-02 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Dorit Ben-Shalom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How do I convert man pages to ghostview? This should work: $ man bash | a2ps -m -1 -o ~/tmp/bashman.ps $ gv !$ -- Oleg Goldshmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] BLOOMBERG L.P. (BFM) [EMAIL PROTECTED] "A sense of the fundamental decencies is parce

Re: man pages in wordpad

1999-01-02 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
Dorit Ben-Shalom wrote: > Thanks again for the useful advice. You are welcome. > How do I convert man pages to ghostview? The following command will convert them to postscript. You can then view them with ghostview, print them on a postscript printer, or print them with ghostscript on windows.

Re: man pages in wordpad

1999-01-02 Thread Alex Shnitman
On Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 02:40:26AM -0800, Dorit Ben-Shalom wrote: > Thanks again for the useful advice. > How do I convert man pages to ghostview? man -t will output PostScript for you. Thus if you have the printer set up (i.e. it receives PostScript) you can type "man -t perlfunc | lpr". --

Re: man pages in wordpad

1999-01-02 Thread Dorit Ben-Shalom
Thanks again for the useful advice. How do I convert man pages to ghostview? Thanks Dorit = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | ma

Re: man pages in wordpad

1999-01-02 Thread Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo
AS>> Wait a moment. Isn't Windows printer sharing such that you have to AS>> have the printer drivers installed on any computer that wants to print AS>> to it? I'm almost sure that that's how it works. (I'd love to be AS>> corrected.) Yes, the windows shared printer expects data to come in format

Re: man pages in wordpad

1999-01-02 Thread Alex Shnitman
On Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 11:13:06AM +0200, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: > You may be able to find an old 386 or 486 to use as a printer driver. You > install windows 95 on it, and share the printer. Then you set up lpr to > print via smbclient instead of on your local printer. Wait a moment. Is

Re: man pages in wordpad

1999-01-02 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
dorit ben shalom wrote: > I bought the only HP printer around that is not very likely > to have a linux driver anytime soon. > So I find myself printing man pages in wordpad. > They turn out OK apart from boldface (?) > where every character c turns into > \Box c \Box c. The b