From: nyet@cco.caltech.edu (n liu) Subject: Re: FAQ lpr, lpd, lpq Date: 4 May 1993 03:33:58 GMT
hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick) writes:
>jimmyhua@aludra.usc.edu (Jimmy Huang) writes:
> ... If you have a
>Postscript printer, the problem is the reverse -- how to print
>non-Postscript stuff. I haven't found anything on tsx-11 or sunsite
>to do this, but I did find something on ftp.uu.net.
>vendor/bsdi/sw/applications/postscript.filters is a shar file
>containing a couple of things. psf is appropriate for use as an lpd
>filter for normal output -- it checks whether the file is Postscript,
>and if not converts it to Postscript. psf compiles without trouble
>under Linux (though the Makefile doesn't work -- compilation is
>obvious: cc -o psf psf.c)
mpage and enscript should also compile easily (I know mpage does, haven't
tried enscript). I'm too lazy to archie for them right now. Find them yourself.
;-)
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