From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 29 08:19:27 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA04315 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 29 Jul 1996 08:19:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sergio.lenzi ([200.247.20.44]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA04206 for ; Mon, 29 Jul 1996 08:18:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from lenzi@localhost) by sergio.lenzi (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA00366; Mon, 29 Jul 1996 12:04:44 GMT Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1996 12:04:40 +0000 () From: "Lenzi, Sergio" X-Sender: lenzi@sergio.lenzi cc: justin@structured.net, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Printing in Netscape In-Reply-To: <199607251912.PAA22805@james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 25 Jul 1996 hoek@freenet.hamilton.on.ca wrote: > In Email, Justin Ashworth wrote: > > How would I go about printing to my non-postscript printer from > > Netscape? When I print now, I get postscript code. Hello Justin, You need to install the ghostscript package.... If it can help here is my "config" files for printer on prostscrip. file /etc/printcap-------------------------- # @(#)printcap 5.3 (Berkeley) 6/30/90 lp|local line printer:\ :lp=/dev/lpt0:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp: \ :mx#0:so:sh:sb:of=/usr/lib/lp/filters/lp:sf file /usr/lib/lp/filters/lp --------------- mode 0755 #!/bin/sh read x t=`echo $x | cut -c1-2` if [ $t = "%!" ] then echo $x > /tmp/$$ cat /tmp/$$ - | \ /usr/local/bin/gs -dQUIET -dNOPAUSE \ -sOUTPUTFILE=- -sDEVICE=cdjmono - rm -f /tmp/$$ else cat echo -n fi ---------------------- it is setted for a deskjet mono for other printers use gs -h to see the models supported by the package