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From: Andreas Klemm <andreas@knobel.gun.de>
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Subject: Re: Printing
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On Mon, 30 Oct 1995, Jon Loeliger wrote:

> Hi folks,
> 
> Just wanted to let you know that I finally got tired of NOT being
> able to print straight ASCII files on my Postscript printer, and
> decided to do something about it.  Well, I hit the ol' "Printing"
> section of the Handbook, and found exactly what I needed and it
> all worked great!  Appriciate the hard work!

I'm missing a section about apsfilter in the handbook ;-)
That would surely offer more to you..., see signature.
Create /usr/local/apsfilter and unpack the tgz archive there.
SETUP will install a printer for you in printcap. After that
you will be able to print like hell:

	lpr ascii.gz tex.dvi.Z picture.gif file.PS

The filter does an automatic filetype detection an conversion
and works without temporary files. Works perfectly here on
FreeBSD-stable (2.1). I'm currently working on a package
for FreeBSD's pkg_add, but since I'm busy, I'd suggest not
to wait for that...

	Andreas ///

$$ apsfilter - magic print filter 4lpd      @home : andreas@knobel.gun.de
$$ ftp://sunsite.unc.edu                    @work : andreas@sunny.wup.de
$$ /pub/Linux/system/Printing/aps-491.tgz   knobel: >>> powered by FreeBSD <<<