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- From: joel@wam.umd.edu (Joel M. Hoffman)
- Subject: Re: Newbie questions -- C++, PS printer
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- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 01:14:30 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec14.003102.4687@cc.gatech.edu> ammo@cc.gatech.edu (Ammo Goettsch) writes:
- >Hi, I have been hacking on Linux for just a few days, trying to get my
- >work ported to my PC.
- >
- >Here are 2 newbie questions, to be answered by the knowing in email or
- >on the group, by preference.
- >
- >1) I have a post script printer. I have the /dev/lp1 working. I would like
- > to have "lpr textfile" make post script out of a straight text file and
- > dump it to my printer. This is like the "enscript" program we have on our
- > UNIX boxes. What program do I need to do this?
-
- There's a program out there called something text2ps. It does exactly
- what you want.
-
- -Joel
- (joel@wam.umd.edu)
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