From: joel@wam.umd.edu (Joel M. Hoffman) Subject: Re: Newbie questions -- C++, PS printer Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 01:14:30 GMT
In article <1992Dec14.003102.4687@cc.gatech.edu> ammo@cc.gatech.edu (Ammo Goettsch) writes:
>Hi, I have been hacking on Linux for just a few days, trying to get my
>work ported to my PC.
>
>Here are 2 newbie questions, to be answered by the knowing in email or
>on the group, by preference.
>
>1) I have a post script printer. I have the /dev/lp1 working. I would like
> to have "lpr textfile" make post script out of a straight text file and
> dump it to my printer. This is like the "enscript" program we have on our
> UNIX boxes. What program do I need to do this?
There's a program out there called something text2ps. It does exactly
what you want.
-Joel
(joel@wam.umd.edu)