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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!news.dfn.de!news.rwth-aachen.de!newsserver.rrzn.uni-hannover.de!tubsibr!rznb14.rz.tu-bs.de!y0001415 From: y0001415@ws.rz.tu-bs.de (Martin Butkus) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: I know it's not sexy but it's about this printer............. Date: 12 Dec 1995 15:49:42 GMT Organization: TU Braunschweig, Informatik (Bueltenweg), Germany Lines: 19 Distribution: world Message-ID: <4ak8am$nk0@ra.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de> References: <817141958.10508@org29.demon.co.uk> <DJ4H4G.4xK@tigger.jvnc.net> <4a365h$col@zuul.nmti.com> <4a7och$pq8@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: rznb14.rz.tu-bs.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Anthony Monroe (tmonroe@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU) wrote: : In article <4a365h$col@zuul.nmti.com>, Peter da Silva <peter@nmti.com> wrote: : >How do you tell APS "if it's just a text file, then just print it"? : > : >I installed aps, then immediately deinstalled it. I don't like it running : >Ghostscript just for listings... : I tried apsfilter once, and had a similar dislike. : I finally got off my but, borrowed a shell script from my roommate, and ended : up writing a Perl program to use as the input filter. If apsfilter is broken : enough to not recognize plain text, then maybe you should get my program. You can always enforce plain printing by doing a lpr -Praw foo.txt For HP Deskjets you'll have to tweak /etc/apsfilterrc a bit though to get the linefeeds treated correctly when printing text.