Re: help with printing, please...
Rick Jones wrote:
>
> Just type "command > lpr". Replace command with the command you want print
> the output of. This will send the output to lpr (printer). You can also
> look at .xsession-errors (in home dir) and xdm-errors in the /var/log dir,
> depending on what you are doing and at what point you get the errors.
Of course you mean "command | lpr". Note that this requires the
installation
of the lpr package.
> Just play with combo's of the above and you will get all the errors. Also
> read the man page on the command and see if you can increase debugging
> with an arg (-d or --debug normally).
>
> On Tue, 29 Apr 1997, smorrill wrote:
>
> > sorry, this is a second request...
> >
> > Is there any way I can send what's actually showing on the on the screen
> > to the printer? I'm trying to get XFree86 running and getting a lot of
> > error messages. I'd like to be able to print these out so I can try to
> > address the problems without having to write everything down... As is
> > obvious, I'm really new at this Linux stuff, so I'm still very much in
> > the thrashing around stages.
> >
> > I'm using Debian Release 1.2 on a 586 / 133 mhz coexisting with
> > winbloze95... I can't even get my ppp stuff going yet so I have to still
> > use winbloze to connect to the 'net.. I'm so ashamed!! :(
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