Re: Prints only PostScript files

2000-10-18 Thread Bob Nielsen
The psonly600 filter should already invoke enscript for text files (enscript is the default for files which don't fit any of the other filter criteria). I believe enscript defaults to 2-up, but the filter can be edited to change this. ps600-filter does not use enscript, however (they also differ

Re: Prints only PostScript files

2000-10-18 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 12:14:43AM -0700, Dwight Johnson wrote: > I am able to print PostScript files with: > > $ lpr file.ps > > to my PostScript printer on my Debian 2.2 system. > > But I am unable to print plaintext files with: > > $ lpr file.txt I had that happen with printtool when I

Re: Prints only PostScript files

2000-10-18 Thread Kerstin Hoef-Emden
Hi, On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Dwight Johnson wrote: > But I am unable to print plaintext files with: > > $ lpr file.txt You can use a2ps for this. It converts ASCII text to formatted postscript. > My current printcap (created with magicfilter) is: > > lp|hplj5mp|HP LJ 5MP:\ > :lp=/dev/lp0:

Re: Prints only PostScript files

2000-10-18 Thread Dwight Johnson
On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Philipp Schulte wrote: > On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 12:57:03AM -0700, Dwight Johnson wrote: > > > Answered my own question. > > > > The answer here appears to be the enscript package. > > But why are you using ps_only_ in the first place? Because I am trying different config

Re: Prints only PostScript files

2000-10-18 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 12:57:03AM -0700, Dwight Johnson wrote: > Answered my own question. > > The answer here appears to be the enscript package. But why are you using ps_only_ in the first place? Phil

Re: Prints only PostScript files

2000-10-18 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 12:14:43AM -0700, Dwight Johnson wrote: > I am able to print PostScript files with: > > $ lpr file.ps > > to my PostScript printer on my Debian 2.2 system. > > But I am unable to print plaintext files with: > > $ lpr file.txt ... > My current printcap (created with m

Re: Prints only PostScript files

2000-10-18 Thread Dwight Johnson
Answered my own question. The answer here appears to be the enscript package. Dwight On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Dwight Johnson wrote: > I am able to print PostScript files with: > > $ lpr file.ps > > to my PostScript printer on my Debian 2.2 system. > > But I am unable to print plaintext files wit

Prints only PostScript files

2000-10-18 Thread Dwight Johnson
I am able to print PostScript files with: $ lpr file.ps to my PostScript printer on my Debian 2.2 system. But I am unable to print plaintext files with: $ lpr file.txt What packages or configuration am I missing to convert plaintext files to PostScript and send them on to the printer. My prev