Re: LPRng: mostly ascii file getting typed as data

2001-11-28 Thread Jim Easton
> I have a unique situation in which professors are dealing with files that > students create via a shell script called photo. The photo script Aren't professors wonderful. We avoid these problems, *and many others*, by the simple expedient that we accept only postscript files. People have t

Re: LPRng: mostly ascii file getting typed as data

2001-11-28 Thread phillip . griffith
How about getting rid of the backspaces before you print the script files? O'Reilly's Unix Power Tools, second edition, section 51.06 "Cleaning script files" Search Google for "script.tidy" and you will find it. Phillip Griffith (803) 952-8776 Information Technology Department Westinghouse Sa

Re: LPRng: mostly ascii file getting typed as data

2001-11-27 Thread Joel Hammer
Knowing nothing about a2ps or ifhp, why don't you try to add the option --non-printable-format=space to the command in your ifhp.conf file for type data? Joel On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 08:21:14PM -0500, Lisa Weihl wrote: > I have a unique situation in which professors are dealing with files that >