Setting the HOME envi. var. to my home directory and placing my configuration file in HOME\.a2ps\a2psrc file did the trick.
I'd be much grateful, if this information is included in the documentation. I wasted a lot of time figuring this out. Being new to MS-Windows myself, didn't help either. :( Thanks much. Senthil. On Wed, 21 Mar 2007, Jeff wrote:
hi, have you tried setting the HOME environment variable to the path to your home directory and naming your a2psrc file .a2psrc? a2ps should also check for a 'local copy' in the current working directory. please let us know if you experience further problems Jeff On 3/21/07, C.G.Senthilkumar. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:I was talking about a windows machine. The default medium that came with the exe I installed is libpaper. I want to change that through the .cfg file. However, I'm not able to get a2ps to read the configuration file. Thanks, Senthil. On Tue, 20 Mar 2007, Nelson H. F. Beebe wrote: > "C.G.Senthilkumar." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asks where the > a2ps configuration file should be located. > > I have > > $HOME/.a2psrc > > You can run truss, trace, strace, or ktrace (depending on Unix flavor) > on a2ps to see what files it tries to open. > > I just did this on Sun Solaris SPARC: > > % truss -o foo.truss -f a2ps foo.c > foo.ps > % fgrep /.a2ps foo.truss > ... > 7655: open("./.a2psrc", O_RDONLY)
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