my 2 cents would be : "install progeny, it does all"
and "then upgrade to woody" -- k h a o s * lamer new name, new look, new ftp: linuxxxxx.dyn.dhs.org (change FOUR letter) upload something before downloading, or your class C IP banned. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Wagnon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2001 10:55 AM Subject: Printing Question > Hi all? > > I'm still battling with this. I have lpd, magicfilter, et al, > installed. I'm able to print from various programs without problems, > however, when I print plain ascii text, the printer prints just fine, > but I need to manually eject the page. I've tried to set my printcap > up to send a form feed when done by inserting 'ff', but that hasn't > panned out. Anyway, I'm sure if I want that because ps files are > ejected normally. > > I've been poking around in the input filters supplied with > magicfilter, and I noticed that the default filter uses recode like > so: > > # Default entry for normal (text) files. This must be the last entry! > # ===================================================================== > # Please adjust recode's codepage conversion manually according to > # your > # local needs. We apologize for the inconveniences... > # > default filter /usr/bin/recode --silent us..ibmpc > > > Actually the 'us' was originally 'latin1'. I've left the file pretty > much alone with the exception of editing to replace 'pdftops' with > 'pdf2ps' as it's named on my system. So I figure that maybe the > solution to my problem lays somewhere in recode, although searching > through the recode docs is beginning to change my mind. Is anyone > doing anything special to print plain ascii text on a woody system > running lpd, magicfilter, etc.? > > TIA! > -- > Mark Wagnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
