From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 18 08:57:38 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA04790 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 18 Jan 1999 08:57:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from iglou.com (iglou3.iglou.com [192.107.41.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA04781 for ; Mon, 18 Jan 1999 08:57:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from patrick@cre8tivegroup.com) Received: from [204.255.227.47] (helo=gateway.cre8tivegroup.com) by iglou.com with esmtp (8.9.1/8.9.1) id 102Hz3-0003CR-00; Mon, 18 Jan 1999 11:57:02 -0500 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199901181601.LAA20944@lakes.dignus.com> Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 11:57:35 -0500 (EST) From: Patrick Gardella To: Thomas David Rivers Subject: Re: WordPerfect 8 and printing on 2.2.8 Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 18-Jan-99 Thomas David Rivers wrote: >> >> 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 " 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 > > 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. I just tried that and it gives me the same response. Error: Spool command I still think its a permissions problem with lpr, /tmp, or /var/spool/lpd. But I've beat my fingers against this to be clear on it. StarOffice used to print! And I thought that WP did as well. It might be that it creates some directory in /tmp, and when I rebooted last (latest system update), it wiped /tmp as I ask it to. So maybe I'll reinstall WP to try that theory. But any suggestions that I'm not thinking of would be good as well! Patrick --- 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