Re: HP Laserjet 6L for Linux?
On Tue, 29 Sep 1998, Mrpeabody wrote: I'm looking to get a printer for my linux box. I was wondering if the HP Laserjet 6L would work with my linux machine? Most of the hardware compatability lists seem kinda out to date and its hard to find out what newer stuff is supported. -jeff I use an HP Laserjet 6L with my linux box. It works well. I set up apsfilter and chose the hpljet4 postscript interpreter (?) for ghostscript and everything works great. at any rate, it's really easy to set up using either magicfilter or apsfilter. HTH - John Kloss
Re: 16bpp XFree86 on IBM Thinkpad 760XL
On Sat, 8 Aug 1998, Robert J. Alexander wrote: Have XFree86 running smoothly 8bpp on my 760XL ... anyone has hints on driving it to 16bpp ?? Tried startx -- -16bpp (or similar) but get the screen readable but broken in four mixed up sections ... Here is my XF86Config. Thank you very much. Bob -- Robert J. Alexander [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIX Certified System Administrator - Debian Linux addict - Win.\* victim Via Sciangai, 53 - 00144 Rome, Italy I'm sending you my XF86Config file. I have the same computer running at 16bpp. I used the DefaultColorDisplay 16 flag in the config file to set things at 16bpp. You can't use acceleration in 16bpp as far as I know because the thinkpad 760xl has only 1m video memory. HTH - John Kloss # File generated by xf86config. Section Files RgbPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/ FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/ FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/ FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/ FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/ FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/freefont/ EndSection Section ServerFlags EndSection Section Keyboard ProtocolStandard AutoRepeat 500 5 XkbOptions ctrl:swapcaps XkbRulesxfree86 XkbModelpc101 XkbLayout us XkbKeymap xfree86(us) EndSection Section Pointer ProtocolPS/2 Device /dev/psaux Emulate3Buttons Emulate3Timeout50 EndSection Section Monitor Identifier ThinkPad 760XL Monitor VendorName IBM ModelName Unknown HorizSync 31.5 - 37.9 VertRefresh 50-90 Modeline 800x600 40 800 840 968 1056 600 601 605 628 +hsync +vsync EndSection Section Device Identifier Generic VGA VendorName Unknown BoardName Unknown Chipset generic EndSection Section Device Identifier Trident Cyber9385 VendorName Trident BoardName Cyber 9385 Chipset cyber9385 VideoRam1024 #Option noaccel #Option linear #Option tgui_pci_read_on #Option tgui_pci_write_on Option cyber_shadow ClockChip tgui EndSection Section Screen Driver svga Device Trident Cyber9385 Monitor ThinkPad 760XL Monitor DefaultColorDepth 16 Subsection Display Depth 8 Modes 800x600 ViewPort0 0 Virtual 800 600 EndSubsection Subsection Display Depth 16 Modes 800x600 ViewPort0 0 Virtual 800 600 EndSubsection EndSection Section Screen Driver vga16 Device Generic VGA Monitor ThinkPad 760XL Monitor Subsection Display Modes 800x600 ViewPort0 0 Virtual 800 600 EndSubsection EndSection Section Screen Driver vga2 Device Generic VGA Monitor ThinkPad 760XL Monitor Subsection Display Modes 800x600 ViewPort0 0 Virtual 800 600 EndSubsection EndSection
Re: getting RealPlayer 5 running
Have any of you guys been able to get RealPlayer 5 running in Linux. Now
that
I am over the bash 2.0/Netscape issue I am not able to get RealPlayer
running.
I always get these errors when I try to open any Real Audio file.
Error 38 : File compression not supported. Cannot locate the requested
RealMedia decoder
The codec for this video was not found on your system, please upgrade.
you need to set your LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable to point to the current
directory where you have RealPlayer set up.
On my machine, Real Player is at
$HOME/bin/rvplayer5.0/
so my .bash_profile has
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}:${HOME}/bin/rvplayer5.0
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
this is mentioned in the install documents for rvplayer, I think.
HTH
- John Kloss
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Re: Sound
Just a question, did you try it as root or as a regular user? and if as a regular user where you a member of the group audio? I couldn't use sound until I edited /etc/group and added my user name to the audio group. HTH - John Kloss -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
printer problems
I've been trying off and on for the last three days to get my printer working. I tried magicfilter but that didn't work, output was always screwed up and truncated. So I purged magicfilter and installed apsfilter to see if it was any better and now my printer daemon is refusing all requests. specifically connection to 'localhost' failed - connection refused job 'cfA223theseus' transfer to [EMAIL PROTECTED] failed now I purged magicfilter with dpkg --purge magicfilter and intsalled apsfilter the manual way (since I guess it isn't maintained as a package). so how do I change this? I know my printer works because I can do somethng like this cat file.ps | gs -q -r600x600 -sDEVICE=ljet4 -OutputFile=\|lpr - and have the file print out just fine (at least I could before I purged magic filter, now lpd is refusing connections). so I have debian 2.0 and using lprng . Everything worked under debian 1.3. - John Kloss -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
SOLVED: printer problems
well, no one responded to this, so I'll just say that I fixed the problem by removing lprng and installing lpr. I read that lprng is supposed to be better but I also read in the bug lists that lprng has a problem with truncating the pipe before the printer has a chance to receive all the data, which was my problem with magicfilter. I think my problem with apsfilter is the filter is a shell script and lprng wants everything to be root which /usr/bin/magicfilter is, a root owned program, and you can't run shell scripts as suid root. maybe that isn't the problem, but it certainly looked that way to me (i.e. I didn't test anything to see for sure). well lpr doesn't have that problem and apsfilter is happy with it and what do I need the power of lprng for? I'm running a printer off of a parallel port on a laptop, single user system. sometimes it's just not my day. - John Kloss -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: installing a modem under debian 1.3
On Sun, 28 Jun 1998, scott hussey wrote: I am a very novice Linux/Debian user and am trying to setup minicom. I am curious about how to get minicom to recognize my modem. I read in the man page that most linux systems have the serial port as /dev/modem or /dev/cua#. How can I get Linux to install my modem as a dev. Currently, pppd recognizes my modem as ttys2, but minicom gives me the message 'I/O Error' when it tries to open ttys2. Any help is greatly appreciated. so I'm no expert here, but I certainly had to go through alot to get my modem to work with debian (but then, I use a laptop with pcmcia card modem :-) ). I think you mean /dev/ttyS2. The serial ports are /dev/ttyS# and equal com port numbers minus one (i.e. com1 = /dev/ttyS0, etc). My modem card installs at com2 so I use /dev/ttyS1. I have been told that /dev/cua# is deprecated and that docs using /dev/cua# are out of date (sigh ...). I'm pretty sure that /dev/modem is just a symbolic link (at least it is on my machine) so to make /dev/modem type ln -s /dev/ttyS2 /dev/modem you also need to check to make sure that /dev/ttyS2 is set for the proper irq and port # for your modem. read the docs that came with your modem and check to see what irq it's expecting to use and what memory address and then type setserial -a /dev/ttyS2 and see what it says. If not, you can use setserial to change those values (read the man pages on setserial), or you can check to see if one of the other serial ports is actually the one you want (setserial -a /dev/ttyS0, etc). If your modem is internal, debian should be able to detect it on start-up since it detects most serial ports on startup but I'm not sure since again I use a laptop and usually my modem isn't in one of my card slots on bootup. At any rate you can see which ports where detected by typing dmesg after startup and logging in. You'll get a list of devices detected at startup and other messages too. I'm sure someone else here can give you alot more info (probably more accurate too), but this is my attempt. HTH - John Kloss -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie Thinkpad question
I installed debian 1.3 on my thinkpad 760xl and as I recall it wasn't that bad if you had the external floppy drive using a port replicator. so that's about extra $300 or $400 or something (I don't remember) but the drive was (and is) recognized by debian instantly and then I was able to install the whole thing in one shot. I used the tecra disks, by the way. HTH - John Kloss -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem with Linux recognizing modem
On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, Fungame Game wrote: I have a modem that is installed on COM2, and is internal. It is compatible with all Hayes-type commands. PPPd is setup to dial out (using chat, using ppp-go). However, when I run it, I get something like this: pppd[299] tcgetattr I/O error. This sounded like a problem talking to my modem, or an incorect setup (eventhough I had it setup for /dev/ttyS1) so I launched minicom. I don't know anything about modems or setup or anything like that but I _do_ know that I've received that error before and it was because my irq for com2 was wrong. so you can check the settings of com2 as setserial -a /dev/ttyS1 and read the info, and you can change the irq as setserial /dev/ttyS1 irq whatever so I did this trying to get my palmpilot to be recognized by my thinkpad. it's an unrelated problem but by setting my com2 port to irq 3 the modem stopped working and I got the above error. when I reset it to irq 5 (which is what is set when the module loads. my modem is a card and the pcmcia features load as a module) everything worked. so there is a way to get setserial to choose a non-conflicting irq automatic which I don't remember but is in the manpages. HTH -John Kloss -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SOLVED: palmpilot III and thinkpad 760xl
so my thanks to Maitland and SEGV. I appreciate your response but my problem turned out to be something else. It turns out all I had to do was read the README file provided by 3com. apparently in thinkpads the serial port is turned _off_ by default so that you can use the infra-red port (and I'm telling you, I use that infra-red all the time :-) ) So I had to reboot into NT and use the IBM thinkpad features to turn off the infra-red and turn on the serial port. now everything works fine. I'm sure there is a way to do this in linux I just dont know how. probably a HOW-TO somewhere. I really should just calm down and read the documentation once and a while. make my life sooo much easier. - John Kloss -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
palmpilot III and ibm thinkpad 760xl
so my parents gave me a palmpilot III for my birthday (which was nice). However, I can't get it to work with my thinkpad. here's what I have debian 1.3.1 pilot-link 8.9 a palmpilot III here's what I did compiled pilot-link 8.9, no real problems installed pilot-link stuff, no real problems tried to get it to communicate with my palmpilot via pilot-xfer /dev/ttyS0 -l with no luck, palmpilot can't find my computer. But this is not a surprise really because gpm is using /dev/ttyS0. so I mv'd the gpm script in /etc/init.d/ to gpm.bak and ran update-rc.d gpm remove and rebooted. 0setserial configured /dev/ttyS0 to the following uart 16550A port 0x03f8 irq 4 which is what the thinkpad documentation says is one of the possible resource defaults for the serial port. still no go _and_ my xserver starts going weird (race conditions or something causing it to die) and my pcmcia cardmanager fails to correctly set up the serial connection for my modem card. so bag that and reinstall gpm and everything is okay. I don't know why my system seems dependent on gpm; I've never used it (and I thought that I read in this list that it wasn't really necessary). so I tried using /dev/ttyS1 but my modem is using that one out, so I pop my modem out and thought that would release the serial connection, but no pilot-xfer says it can't make a connection to port ttyS1. specifically it says unable to bind to port '/dev/ttyS1' so I tried doing setserial setserial /dev/ttyS2 uart 16550A irq 4 port 0x03e8 setserial /dev/ttyS3 uart 16550A irq 3 port 0x02e8 but setserial won't actually set the serial connections (yes, I ran the command as root). so why is that and where do I go from here? And in either case, same response from pilot-xfer. so the specks for the serial port in the back of the thinkpad are irq 4 port 0x03f8 30x02f8 40x03e8 30x02e8 the standard com 1-4 stuff. I'd really like to use this pda with linux so any help would be greatly appreciated. And if it will make anyone smile, I couldn't get the damn thing to work with NT either-- consistent, supported platform, my ass. - John Kloss -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to make X fonts Bigger
On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, Rev. Joseph Carter wrote: On Tue, Jun 02, 1998 at 10:22:34PM -0400, Kevin Atkinson wrote: Is there any way to make all X fonts say 1.5 times bigger than they are now? If you find a solution to X fonts being too small and not scaling properly, LET ME KNOW! I cannot use X till I find a solution to this or get a bigger monitor. You can compile in support for TrueType fonts. Found the code for this at www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/home/jec/programs/xfsft I haven't done it yet, but this guy had screen shots of Netscape before and after and the difference was dramatic. I'm just waiting for hamm to go stable so that when I switch over I can apply this. HTH - John Kloss -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Boot to Linux from NT; problem
I had this problem when I changed my file system on nt from fat to ntfs. my boatloader line read something like Linux: ... c:/BOOTSECT.INI but the actual file was c:/bootsect.ini and it wouldn't load because the nt boatloader was looking for the file to be all caps (which was fine for fat because that was the dos name for the file). Any way when I changed the line in the boatloader to all lower case it booted linux. really, it was that simple. I'm not at my computer right now so I can't check the the boatloader init file. This was from memory so I hope it's clear. hth - John Kloss -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Stronghold Apache
so I'm thinking about hosting a web site to do e-commerce (selling disk and database space to some local stores who want on-line catalogs). so I figure that they would probably want SSL for credit card stuff. since I'm in the US I can't just compile in SSLeay to apache without copywrite violation to RSA, etc. (so says the apache web site) I was thinking about Stronghold. I went to their site and they said it was basically apache (I'm assuming 1.2.6 since 1.3 is still beta) with 128bit encryption. They have binaries for red hat 5.0 but I want to use debian 2.0 since it's what I know and I like it. anyone had any experience with this? anyone know of another way (other than moving out of the US, paying a license fee to RSA and registering a digital signature with verisign (or whatever they're called), or waiting for congress to get a clue about encryption)? I want to use apache or some derivative (because that is also what I know). thanks in advance - John Kloss -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Stronghold Apache
There are AFAIK patches available to SSLeay to use RSAREF. There are also Apache-ssl Debian packages in non-us which can be IMPORTED to the US, but not EXPORTED again. There's also a rsaref package in non-us. So, get the source packages for all of these things, build a custom SSLeay with RSAREF linked in, build a custom apache-ssl, and call it good. Or if you don't CARE if your apache uses RSAREF since it uses SSLeay which functions the same with or without it, just grab the apache-ssl binary package. I won't tell RSA if you don't. = Okay, so I know about rsaref and I can't use it, not commercially at least. I really don't have any interest in breaking the law no matter how stupid the law is. so I've also heard of the covalent raven ssl module for apache. this option is much less expensive then stronghold (raven is ~$400 while stronghold is ~$1000) and comes as a module so I can still custom compile apache (which, believe it or not, is what I want to do. I like to know what went in to my binaries). so again, anyone using the above products on debian? any experience with this whatsoever? any advice is much appreciated. - John Kloss -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Choosing a printer for Linux:
I have an HP LJ 6L which I'm very satisfied with. $400 or less for the machine (probably less now, sigh ... ). Used magicfilter to get it working with linux (took about 5 seconds to do, no configuring really). I do mostly postscript printing (latex to postscript using dvips, and ghostscript to print the postscript) and the pages come out very nice and clear. However, the first one I bought had a misaligned roller so everything came out slanted so ask for a test page print out at the store where you buy it (compusa was very nice about this). I use linux kernel 2.0.30, gs 3.33-5, and magicfilter 1.2-10. Been using it for about two months, no problems. - John Kloss On Sat, 4 Apr 1998, Liran Zvibel wrote: Hello, I'm planing to buy a printer, and I don't know whether to choose Epson Stylus color 800 or HP LJ 4L. I know that the Epson has PS level 2 as an option, but the one at my store doesn't have it. Are there any other good printers to choose from? Does anybody have experience with those? Thanks, Liran Zvibel. http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~liranz/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fetchmail qmail inter-operability
On Sat, 7 Mar 1998, Richard A Leach wrote: I've looked at fetchmail, but it seems to require smtp to be working so it can submit the mail it has downloaded through port 25 and the normal smtp demon (qmail-smtpd in my case). Experiments with smtp disabled and fetchmail ... -m sendmail # dan's clone caused mail to be received but not delivered. I'm no expert on this (I just started using linux), but I think you might want to say fetchmail ... -m sendmail %s where %s will be filled in with the user name executing the fetchmail program. This is what I have in my .fetchmailrc poll theseus with proto pop3 port timeout 45: user jkloss pass password mda /usr/sbin/sendmail %s fetchall preconnect ssh -f -L :my.school.edu:110 my.school.edu 'sleep 60' /dev/null so the line mda /usr/sbin/sendmail %s does what you want I think. hope this is relevant - John Kloss -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Netscape fails to automatically open ps, ram, ...
On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Fredrik Ax wrote: On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Bob Nielsen wrote: On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Fernando Tadeu C Brandt wrote: Netscape is showing the following error box when I try to open postscripts, sound file, etc: sh: -c line 1: missing closing ')' for arithmetic expression sh: -c line 1: syntax error near unexpected token `;' sh: -c line 1: '((gv /tmp/MO34FAF5B0003B1); rm /tmp/MO34FAF5B0003B1 )' [SNIP] This is the classic symptom of running the somewhat-buggy bash-2.0 in bo. The problem is that bash interpretates (( not as two seperate brackets but as a bracket for expression evaluated according to the arithmetic evaluation rules and therefore misses the closing )) bracket. I would suggest upgrading to hamm to get around this. There is a bo version of bash-2.05 around which provides a workaround, but you have to be very careful when you do upgrade to hamm if you have that version installed (I found out the hard way). A faster solution whould be to install ash wich is distributed in version 0.2-1 in bo. Use dselect, or for even faster install dpkg -i bo/binary/shells/ash_0.2-1.deb from your Debian 1.3x distribution. When installed change the symlink name sh in /bin to point at ash instead of bash: % cd /bin % ln -sf ash sh Okay, maybe this was a stupid thing to do, but I used emacs to edit the binaries. On line 17183 of my version of netscape (4.04) I changed the line (([EMAIL PROTECTED] %s | ^@); rm %.200s ) to ( ([EMAIL PROTECTED] %s| ^@ ); rm %.200s) and things seemed to work just fine. At least I got rvplayer to work that way and netscape doesn't crash (so far). I'm sure the better solution is to upgrade to hamm, but I'm waiting for the code freeze before I order the cd's (I just have this hangup about using something that says unstable). - John Kloss -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: /dev/cua? and /dev/ttyS?
As I recall I tried using ttyS0 (I want to use ttyS0 not ttys0 right? I think the other one is a terminal port). At any rate, things never worked out for that one. Believe me, that was the first one that I tried, since that was what the PCMCIA-HOWTO recommended. As an aside, I don't nor have I ever used DOS, so your assumptions were wrong. Another reason why I chose /dev/cua1 was this paragraph in the PCMCIA-HOWTO which states 3.3 How do I use my PCMCIA modem card? Linux serial devices are accessed via the /dev/cua* and /dev/ttyS* special device files. The ttyS* devices are for incoming connections, such as directly connected terminals. The cua* devices are for outgoing connections, such as modems. The configuration of a serial device can be examined and modified with the setserial command. When a PCMCIA serial or modem card is detected, it will be assigned to the first available serial device slot. This will usually be /dev/cua1 or /dev/cua2, depending on the number of buil-in serial ports. Okay, so end quote. When I configured the pcmcia card daemon, cardmgr it refused to recognize my card (one high beep, then one low -- meaning card not configured). This problem was solved when I did a mknod /dev/cua1 and set the major and minor numbers. After that it worked, ... well ... after I changed a #define in the kernel code to point to the right I/O address and added some lines to the /etc/pcmcia/config.opts. In otherwords, it was a real hassel to get linux to recognize my modem and I stopped as soon as everything seemed to be working. Now, having had a chance to relax and fully use linux I've taken a look at my /var/run/stab file and see that it states Socket 0: Serial or Modem Card 0 serial serial_cs 0 ttyS1 4 So I see that I was choosing the wrong device, ttyS0 not ttyS1. This port seems to work fine, and I'm using it now. But I hope you can see my confusion, I was relying on the only documentation that I had. - John Kloss -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: /dev/cua? and /dev/ttyS?
On Thu, 5 Feb 1998, robert havoc pennington wrote: On Fri, 6 Feb 1998, impale wrote: What is the difference between /dev/cua? and /dev/ttyS? ? See the PPP HOWTO for one explanation. Essentially cua? is obsolete, ignore it and use ttyS?. Havoc Pennington Okay, I'm pretty new to linux but I have my version up and running on my laptop just fine and I can say this about /dev/cua* It is NOT obsolete. The only way that I can connect to my modem (which is a pcmcia card) is through /dev/cua1. I tried many times to connect to my ISP through /dev/ttyS1, 2, 3 (it should be 1 because that is what the com port is) and nothing happened. When I switched to /dev/cua1 everything worked. - John Kloss -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
SOLVED: /etc/printcap setup
So taking the suggestion of many people I installed magicfilter and used the magicfilterconfig script that came with it. So it set printcap fine and everything works now. Great program. Thanks alot. - John Kloss -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
/etc/printcap set up
I recently bought an HP Laser Jet 6L and I'm happy to say that it works beautifully with linux. After a little work I hacked together a perl script which will print ascii just fine and ghostscript allows me to do postscript and latex so I'm happy with that. The problem is I can't get lpr to recognize the filters I want to use. I know that lpr searches the /etc/printcap file to see how each printer is setup. Having read the Printing-HOWTO I was under the impression that I could add the filters I wanted in that file. Currently my /etc/printcap looks like this lp|Laser Jet:\ :lp=/dev/lp0:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\ :mx#0:\ :pl#64:\ :sh: Now the Printing-HOWTO said to add a text filter for just plain lpr'ing, that is, a simple command with no options, like lpr myfile.txt I should add the line :if=/etc/filter.txt:\ to /etc/printcap and things would work out right. Well I wrote the filter.txt and tried it (as root) with # cat myfile.txt | /etc/filter.txt /dev/lp0 and things worked out fine. I also tried it with this (as an ordinary user) $ cat myfile.txt | /etc/filter.txt | lpr and once again things worked out fine (the job was spooled to the printer and printed out correctly) so I don't think it's a problem with my file permissions or my script. So when I add the line :if=/etc/filter.txt:\ to /etc/printcap, all I get is one blank page printed out. So I know the next question, where did I add the line, well /etc/printcap looks like this lp|Laser Jet:\ :lp=/dev/lp0:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\ :if=/etc/filter.txt:\ :mx#0:\ :pl#64:\ :sh: So what I'm I doing wrong? I've read both the Printing-HOWTO and the Printing-Usage-HOWTO and they tell me this should work, but it doesn't. I would also like to print tex files from lpr by using $ lpr -d myfile.dvi which means I should add :df=/etc/filter.dvi:\ right? I would also like a script to handle postscript. Currently to print postscript I have to type cat myfile.ps | gs -sDEVICE=ljet4 -sOutputFile=- -dNOPAUSE - | lpr which works but I'd rather have a script for it that lpr will call with some command line argument (-p ?) I don't know which one to use. So I could write a bunch of bash aliases to handle all this, but I'd rather have lpr do it for me because I thought that was what /etc/printcap was all about. Any help would be greatly appreciated. - John Kloss -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
