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From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com>
To: <joup@mail.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: RE: Printing ASCII w/ lpd, apsfilter
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 21:30:15 -0700
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Ted Mittelstaedt                      tedm@toybox.placo.com
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
>[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of joup@mail.com
>Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 1:59 AM
>To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
>Subject: Printing ASCII w/ lpd, apsfilter
>
>
>Hi,
>
>I'm trying to print an ASCII file to an HP Laserjet 5L.  Plain postscript
>printing seems to work ok-- if I use a2ps to convert the text file to ps,
>it prints fine.  But when I simply use "lpr somefile", it just prints a
>page with
>
>Error: /typecheck in --closefile
>				Operand Stack:
>						--nostringval-- ()
>								Execution
>
>Here's the relevant portion of /etc/princap; I think apsfilter is at least
>being called, but it's not doing it's job right.
>
># APS1_BEGIN:printer1
># - don't delete start label for apsfilter printer1
># - no other printer defines between BEGIN and END LABEL
>lp|Printer1 auto:\
>    :lp=/dev/lpt0:\
>    :if=/etc/apsfilter/basedir/bin/apsfilter:\
>    :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
>    :lf=/var/spool/lpd/lp/log:\
>    :af=/var/spool/lpd/lp/acct:\
>    :mx#0:\
>    :sh:
>raw1|Printer1 raw:\
>    :lp=/dev/lpt0:\
>    :if=/etc/apsfilter/basedir/bin/apsfilter:\
>    :sd=/var/spool/lpd/raw1:\
>    :lf=/var/spool/lpd/raw1/log:\
>    :af=/var/spool/lpd/raw1/acct:\
>    :mx#0:\
>    :sf:\
>    :sh:
># APS1_END - don't delete this
>
>
>Thanks
>Mark Miller
>
>
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