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Re: Print postscript to cups.



On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 04:58:39PM +0000, Rus Foster wrote:
> I'm sure this is an easy one. I've got a .ps file and want to print it to
> cups. Is there a nice command to do that? something like lpq <filename>?

Close...  lpq tells you what's in the printer's queue, it doesn't
actually print anything.  The command you want is either `lp
<filename>` or `lpr <filename>`.  (I don't recall which is in the
main cupsys package and which is in cupsys-bsd.  If you've installed
cupsys-bsd, they should both work.)

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