From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Jan 1 17:34:07 1996 Return-Path: owner-doc Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA20221 for doc-outgoing; Mon, 1 Jan 1996 17:34:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from fieber-john.campusview.indiana.edu (Fieber-John.campusview.indiana.edu [149.159.1.34]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA20205 for ; Mon, 1 Jan 1996 17:34:04 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jfieber@localhost) by fieber-john.campusview.indiana.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id UAA01504; Mon, 1 Jan 1996 20:33:30 -0500 Date: Mon, 1 Jan 1996 20:33:29 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber X-Sender: jfieber@fieber-john.campusview.indiana.edu To: James Raynard cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Handbook - printer setup In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-doc@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 29 Dec 1995, James Raynard wrote: > The bit that really had me tearing my hair out was when I tried to use > the suggested text filter - I kept getting errors 'execv of > /usr/local/libexec/hpif failed'. After checking the paths and were correct, > checking that the filter was world-readable and executable and successfully > piping into and out of the filter by hand I was at a complete loss. Bizarre. I copied the hpif directly out of the handbook and it worked. Permissions are: -rwxr-xr-x 1 root bin 697 Dec 11 13:27 hpif If you do figure out why the shell script didn't work, let us know. It might be worthwhile adding a note to the handbook if it is something that might catch other people as well. -john == jfieber@indiana.edu =========================================== == http://fieber-john.campusview.indiana.edu/~jfieber ============