On Monday 03 March 2003 22:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This may have been answered previously, but my archive doesnt go > back far enough to find it. > > When I do a dvips <filename> > > Instead of being routed to the printer, I get the error message: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unisys]$ dvips test.dvi > This is dvips(k) 5.86 Copyright 1999 Radical Eye Software > (www.radicaleye.com) ' TeX output 2003.03.03:1429' -> |lpr > dvips: ! couldn't open output pipe > > and strace shows that itis trying to open |lpr as mentioned in the > config.ps file. > > So how did they break this? > and is there a fix?
That is the default behaviour of dvips set in a configuraton-file. It's not broken. Solution: dvips filename.dvi -o filename.ps or comment out the line o|lpr in the file /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/config.ps -- Øystein Olsen, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://folk.uio.no/oeysteio Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, http://www.astro.uio.no University of Oslo, Norway -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
