Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 11:01:17 -0500 (EST) From: Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, patrick@cre8tivegroup.com Subject: Re: WordPerfect 8 and printing on 2.2.8 Message-ID: <199901181601.LAA20944@lakes.dignus.com> In-Reply-To: <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.
Although this is a guess, maybe WordPerfect wants the entire path to
the command?
Try this:
/usr/bin/lpr -Plp <f>
If WordPerfect is doing an exec() to run the command, it will need the
entire path. If it's doing a system("lpr -Plp") - it likely wouldn't have.
I'm making this guess because WordPerfect can't start up my web browser...
which I think is for the same reason... (it's pointing to a shell script
instead of an exec'able file.)
Try that out before you do a clean install... I *seriously* doubt wiping
the disk and doing a total re-install will actually help this problem.
- Dave Rivers -
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