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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!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!bofh.dot!in-news.erinet.com!imci5!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: ghostscript Date: 21 May 1996 07:11:09 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 19 Message-ID: <4nrqad$917@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <31A0E8FB.5BED@mcs.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Eli Lazich <elazich@mcs.com> wrote: > I just installed this off of the 2.1 CD and I'm alittle lost as to how > to get it to print PS to my printers. It works just fine under X, but > from a character mode it does not seem to accept the -s DEVICE= switch. It does work for us (assuming you're speaking about Ghostscript). However, Ghostscript requires a few more options, like -q, and the use of a dash `-' as its input file name, to read from a pipe. Do also add ``-dSAFER''! Read the chapter about printing in the handbook. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)