Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 11:57:35 -0500 (EST) From: Patrick Gardella <patrick@cre8tivegroup.com> To: Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WordPerfect 8 and printing on 2.2.8 Message-ID: <XFMail.990118115735.patrick@cre8tivegroup.com> In-Reply-To: <199901181601.LAA20944@lakes.dignus.com>
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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 <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.
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
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