Re: magicfilter does ps?

[joey@finlandia.infodrom.north.de (Martin Schulze)]

the lone gunman writes:
> On my old Slackware system, I manually installed APSfilter, and had my
> printer setup correctly.  I could print text files without the
> staircase effect, and simply type "lp somefile.ps" and postscript
> files would print out automatically.
> 
> On Debian, now, I have magicfilter (not APSfilter) installed, and my
> text file printing is okay, but if I try to lp a postscript, I get the
> literal file printed, i.e. it does not come out looking as it does
> under ghostview.
> 
> What do I need to do to ammend this situation?

Both magicfilter and apsfilter are included.  Please check your
/etc/printcap file.  Maybe magicfilter hasn't installed itself
as filter?

Regards,

	Joey

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