On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Oeystein Olsen wrote:
> 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
Or
dvips -f filename.dvi | lpr
The default was changed for security reasons, but I think the rawhide
version may have changed it back due to user protests.
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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
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http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
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