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- From: john.will@satalink.com (John Will)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Printing?
- Message-ID: <1728.1189.uupcb@satalink.com>
- Date: 12 Jan 93 16:57:00 GMT
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- Organization: Datamax/Satalink Connection * Ivyland, PA (215) 443-9434
- Reply-To: john.will@satalink.com (John Will)
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- I've progressed to the point that I'd like to attach my printer to
- my Linux box, and I've come across a problem, where to come up with
- a printcap entry for a LJ-II, the default one that came with my SLS
- version was for a Panasonic as I recall. I can send plain text to
- the printer with cat, so the channel is open, but I was attempting
- to figure out how to use LaTex to print out some documents, no manual
- page, and no readable documentation for it, how does a body get "kick-
- started" with LaTex? I don't see much in any of the FAQ's about
- printing with Linux in general, or LaTex in particular. How much of
- the 10 megabytes of LaTex do I really need just to print documents?
- I did notice that there is no spooler capability now, other than the
- fact that you could have conflicting jobs, what effect does that have,
- it seems I could just print from a different virtual console, no?
- I have a foot high stack of Unix books of various flavors, very little
- is mentioned about the printcap entries, is this a "black art" like
- the termcap entries? :-)
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- . KingQWK 1.05 # 97 . Don't ask me--I'm making this up as I go!
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