Re: Setting default printing across applications - SOLVED

[Clive Menzies <clive@clivemenzies.co.uk>]

Thanks all (Gee and Stephen), Donald's suggestion did the trick ;-)

All I have to do is get to grips with making it pretty with
muttprint ;-)

And I now have one less reason to boot into Mac OSX ;-)

Regards

Clive


On (19/05/03 04:48), Donald Spoon wrote:
> Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 04:48:16 -0500
> From: Donald Spoon <dspoon@astcomm.net>
> Reply-To: dspoon@astcomm.net
> To: Clive Menzies <clive@clivemenzies.co.uk>
> CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Setting default printing across applications
> 
> Clive Menzies wrote:
> >Hi Stephen
> >
> >On (16/05/03 17:56), Stephen E. Childs wrote:
> >
> >>On Fri, May, 16, 2003 at 12:05:12PM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote:
> >>
> >>>My difficulty arises when printing from a Shell, in particular Mutt.  I
> >>>can't find where to set the default printing instruction to "lp".  I
> >>>checked through .muttrc and there didn't appear to be any relevant
> >>>references in there.
> >>
> >>In your .muttrc, just add:
> >>
> >>set print_command="lp"
> >>
> >>That should work.
> >
> >
> >It works in as much as it gets piped to lpq but alas goes no further ;-(
> >
> >The problem seems to be getting lpq to deliver its contents to the
> >actual printer.  This doesn't seem to be a problem when printing from
> >Galeon or Kwrite.
> >
> >Thanks for your help
> >
> >Regards
> >
> >Clive
> >
> 
> I have come in on this late and haven't read all the previous messages, 
> so pardon if this has been covered.
> 
> Try installing the cupsys-bsd package if you haven't already done it and 
> see what happens.  This should give your CUPS system compatability with 
> BSD-style printing commands.  I had problems getting a few apps to print 
> via CUPS until I did this.
> 
> Cheers,
> -Don Spoon-
> 
> 
> 
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