From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Apr 3 02:33:12 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id CAA02295 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 3 Apr 1995 02:33:12 -0700 Received: from a1fel.feld.cvut.cz (root@a1fel.feld.cvut.cz [147.32.192.13]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id CAA02287 for ; Mon, 3 Apr 1995 02:33:09 -0700 Received: by a1fel.feld.cvut.cz id AA31799 (5.67b/IDA-1.4.4); Mon, 3 Apr 1995 11:29:00 +0200 Date: Mon, 3 Apr 1995 11:29:00 +0200 (MET DST) From: Honza Kostal To: Gary Palmer Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: /etc/printcap for Deskjet 500 and gs In-Reply-To: <873.796836524@palmer.demon.co.uk> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 2 Apr 1995, Gary Palmer wrote: > I hate to say it but apsfilter is probably a better bet that gs. AFAIR it > handles DVI files internally, so you can just lpr foo.dvi and have it print. > (although it still dvips foo.dvi, (gs -whatever) foo.ps, at least it's hidden > from you :-) ) I think write script which do right this is so easy ... I have this setup for my DeskJet 320, and work fine. There are two filters, one for .dvi files (lpr -d file.dvi) which call dvips and gs, the other for .ps files (lpr -c file.ps, -c option is dedicated for CifPlot format, and because I don't know what is CifPlot, I use it for PS :-) Honza Kostal jenik@feld.cvut.cz FIDO: 2:420/12