Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 10:38:57 -0500 (EST) From: Patrick Gardella <patrick@cre8tivegroup.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: WordPerfect 8 and printing on 2.2.8 Message-ID: <XFMail.990118103857.patrick@cre8tivegroup.com>
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This is a bizarre problem that has me baffled. I've got the Linux Word Perfect 8 on my FreeBSD-STABLE box. It runs fine. But it won't print! I get a spooler error when I try to print. The spooler command is showing up, and it's correct, but it just keeps giving me the error: Spool Command. The spool command it's using is "lpr -Plp <f>" where f is the file name. If I print to disk, and then use the exact same print command, it prints fine. I'm printing to an Apple Laserwriter that's on our Appletalk network (running netatalk). I've tried a passthru PostScript, as well as choosing the model printer it is. Everything else can print to it (Netscape, XFMail). Almost everything. I had StarOffice 4sp3 on this machine as well, and it gave me trouble as well. I'm guessing that it's a permission problem either on a command or on the spooling directory, but I've not been able to nail it down. Does anyone know where, or if, Word Perfect creates a temp file before being sent to the lpr command? I've run it as root, and it still doesn't print. I'm about ready to wipe the hard disk and start over, with a clean install of everything, but that's overkill for an otherwise perfectly running system. Can anyone offer suggestions? --- Patrick S. Gardella Director of Web Development The Creative Group 1-800-804-0783 ext 29 606-858-8029 (fax) http://www.cre8tivegroup.com PGP Key ID 0xEE2D47A9 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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