Newbie lpd printing

Gary Schenk gwschenk at socal.rr.com
Wed Apr 30 21:23:14 PDT 2003


On Saturday 26 April 2003 08:48 pm, Malcolm Kay wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Apr 2003 01:10, Mike Meyer wrote:
> > In <200304251649.52050.gwschenk at socal.rr.com>, Gary Schenk
>
> <gwschenk at socal.rr.com> typed:
> > > On Friday 25 April 2003 04:27 am, Mike Meyer wrote:
> > > > No, you copied it correctly. The script is broken in the
> > > > handbook. I'll post a PR on it sometime in the next few days.
> > >
> > > Great. Thanks, Mike. I'm going to try to get my printer running
> > > tonight.
> >
> > I hope that went well.  If you're still trying to use the script
> > from the handbook, you can find my patch to it at <URL:
> > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=51444 >.
>
> Unfortunately this is not much better as it is corrupted
> (at least when using opera) by html when either browsed or viewed as
> source.
>
> OK if one understands html macros for > < etc and can make the
> substitutions.
>
> Malcolm

I tried both scripts, and am very pleased to announce that I am printing 
text and PostScript from both the command line, OpenOffice and KDE. 
Heck, I'm even printing off a network printer.

I'm using the new hpif script from the handbook. I did a cut and paste 
from the web page to Kedit. For some reason the script from Malcolm 
does not work for me.

Malcolm and Mike: I owe both of you guys big time for helping me out 
with this problem. You both went to a lot of effort to help. It is much 
appreciated. Maybe some day I can pay back the favor.

Hmmmm....I wonder if I can print jpg files......

Gary Schenk



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