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Subject: Re: How to print plain ASCII file
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> > Is there a tutorial/source for printing simple ASCII files.

if your replaced the <CTRL> stuff with normal control
characters, and use the ghostsript command for your
particular printer, this will print DOS/UNIX text files,
as well as PostScript (Netscape HTML) pages by simply
stating "lp FILE" ...  NOTE the "if" printcap command.
hope this ends this question once and for all ;)
i got this straight from the handbook (almost).

#!/bin/sh
#
# LP Filter (PS/DOS/UNIX) ... printcap :if=usr/libexec/lpr/lpf: 1997(c)KERR

read line1

if   echo $line1 | grep -q %!; then \
     /usr/local/bin/gs -q -g2550x3250 -r300 -dBATCH -sDEVICE=djet500 \
     -sOutputFile=- - && exit 0
elif echo $line1 | grep <CTRL-M>; then \
     cat && echo <CTRL-L> && exit 0
else echo $line1<CTRL-M>; \
     cat | sed s/$/<CTRL-M>/ && echo <CTRL-L> && exit 0
fi
exit 2

# BUGS: when printing text files, a cr/lf is always printed at the top
#       of the 1st page of each document, leaving only 65 of 66 lines
#       left for printing on my djet500 (1st page only).
#       requires ghostscript for postscript printing.


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