Re: Prints only PostScript files
Answered my own question.
The answer here appears to be the enscript package.
Dwight
On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Dwight Johnson wrote:
> I am able to print PostScript files with:
>
> $ lpr file.ps
>
> to my PostScript printer on my Debian 2.2 system.
>
> But I am unable to print plaintext files with:
>
> $ lpr file.txt
>
> What packages or configuration am I missing to convert plaintext files to
> PostScript and send them on to the printer.
>
> My previous Slackware, SuSE and Red Hat systems have all been configured
> out of the box to do this automatically.
>
> The strange thing to me is that I did have this working before I started
> working on the problem of why my printer was printing an extra page on
> every print. So maybe I glitched something with my configuration
> experiments.
>
> My current printcap (created with magicfilter) is:
>
> lp|hplj5mp|HP LJ 5MP:\
> :lp=/dev/lp0:sd=/var/spool/lpd/hplj5mp:\
> :sh:pw#80:pl#66:px#1440:mx#0:\
> :if=/etc/magicfilter/psonly600-filter:\
> :af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs:
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Dwight
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> Dwight Johnson
> dwj@aaronsrod.com
>
>
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