From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 26 13:11:48 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id NAA21521 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 26 Oct 1995 13:11:48 -0700 Received: from fslg8.fsl.noaa.gov (fslg8.fsl.noaa.gov [137.75.131.171]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id NAA21511 for ; Thu, 26 Oct 1995 13:11:44 -0700 Received: by fslg8.fsl.noaa.gov (5.57/Ultrix3.0-C) id AA18755; Thu, 26 Oct 95 14:11:35 -0600 Received: by emu.fsl.noaa.gov (1.38.193.4/SMI-4.1 (1.38.193.4)) id AA26091; Thu, 26 Oct 1995 14:11:34 -0600 Date: Thu, 26 Oct 1995 14:11:34 -0600 From: kelly@fsl.noaa.gov (Sean Kelly) Message-Id: <9510262011.AA26091@emu.fsl.noaa.gov> To: dbaker@baker.err.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: (message from Daniel Baker on Wed, 25 Oct 1995 21:48:29 -0500 (CDT)) Subject: Re: Printing with HP Deskjet Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Baker writes: Daniel> I have a HP Deskjet 560c, and even after reading the Daniel> handbooks, FAQs, and getting ghostscript running, I still Daniel> cna't print correctly. Send me your /etc/printcap and copies of any scripts to which it refers, and I'll help. Daniel> Whenever I print by typing lpr filename, or doing a cat Daniel> foobar.ps > /dev/lpt0, I just get three lines like this: Daniel> %!PS-Adobe-3.0 Daniel> %%Creator: groff version 1.09 Daniel> %%CreationDate: Thu Sep Well, cat'ing a PostScript file to a non-PostScript printer definitely won't work. Let's just work on getting Ghostscript working with LPD instead. -- Sean Kelly NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory, Boulder Colorado USA I wrote a song, but I can't read music so I don't know what it is. Every once in a while I'll be listening to the radio and I say, "I think I might have written that." -- Steven Wright