From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 22 18:55:32 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA21973 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 18:55:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA21967 for ; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 18:55:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id SAA06141; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 18:55:13 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 18:55:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Brandon Gillespie cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 'lprps' in docs (was: Re: Text->Postscript filter) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 22 Oct 1996, Brandon Gillespie wrote: > The documentation (/usr/share/doc/handbook/handbook87.html) states: > > lprps should be part of the FreeBSD ports collection (see The Ports > Collection); if not, it should be shortly. > > Its not, and this documentation is a few months old. My impression from > this document file is using this program is preferred as it will do > plain-text filtering for you--otherwise you need to do your own parsing to > do plain-text filtering etc. I grabbed a2ps, and things seem to be > working fine with it, but I'm just curious as to where lprps is at, as I > would rather have it.. Can't say I know. I use a package called 'apsfilter' that is an output filter that converts many file formats to ps, then pipes it through ghostscript to your printer's format. Works stupendously on my DeskJet 500C. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major