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Date:      Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:06:09 -0600 (CST)
From:      Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
To:        Mark Bath <mark@baggywrinkle.co.uk>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Problem with apsfilter and a2ps ports
Message-ID:  <14931.19953.5596.361477@guru.mired.org>
In-Reply-To: <81296661@toto.iv>

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Mark Bath <mark@baggywrinkle.co.uk> types:
> I'm not sure if this is the right place to share this if not I'm sorry.

It's a reasonable place. I just went through this myself.

> I have just intsalled a new system with apsfilter and a2ps, and when printing
> text have found a problem. It seems that the parameters that apsfilter calls
> a2ps are not compatable.
> 
> I'm running apsfilter version 6.0.0 and a2ps version 4.3. When I print a file
> for example the hosts file via lpr /etc/hosts it seems that a2ps calls
> apsfilter with the following:
[ ... details deleted ... ]
> I guess this is a problem with the compatability of the two packages.

apsfilter needs a2ps version 4.13 (the a2ps port, not the a2ps43
port). If you install that port, it will work.

Personally, I switched to magicfilter, which has a cleaner system
interface, better postscript printer support, and a real text filter.

	<mike
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