Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2004 12:24:14 +0100 From: Dirk.Roehrdanz@t-online.de (Dirk Roehrdanz) To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PS printing to non PS printer on 5.2 Message-ID: <20040214122414.A583@aldebaran.dx> In-Reply-To: <402D577B.8010402@tellme3times.com>; from chris@tellme3times.com on Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 06:02:19PM -0500 References: <402D577B.8010402@tellme3times.com>
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Hello Chris, On 0, Chris <chris@tellme3times.com> wrote: > Hell all, > > I'm having trouble getting gs to print with the instructions in the > handbook. While I can print simple text to the printer I am unable to > print postscript. > > The same script works fine on 4.x I have now tried this on 5.1 and 5.2.1 > and both result in the same errors; > > AFPL Ghostscript 8.11: **** Could not open the file /dev/fd/3 . > Error: /invalidfileaccess in --.outputpage-- > > > now on 5.x we do not have /dev/fd/3 as required by the hand book; > > /usr/local/bin/gs -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=djet500 \ > -sOutputFile=/dev/fd/3 - && exit 0 to access /dev/fd/3 you have to mount fdescfs before: mount_fdescfs fdescfs /dev/fd You can put an adequate line in /etc/fstab(after the devfs line): fdescfs /dev/fd fdescfs rw 0 0 Dirk
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