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- From: asnyder@artorg.hmc.psu.edu (Alan J. Snyder)
- Subject: Re: Frame 3.1x & Solaris 2.x (2.1)
- Message-ID: <asnyder.726776981@ernie>
- Keywords: printing solaris
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- Organization: Penn State Center for Academic Computing
- References: <1ig16gINN7bp@hal.com>
- Date: 11 Jan 93 18:29:41 GMT
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- michael@hal.COM (Michael Coxe) writes:
-
- >This involves Sun Solaris 2.x & Frame 3.1x - junk now unless interested.
- >-------------
- >I have just installed Solaris 2.1 on my Sun Sparc and I can sucessfully
- >run Frame 3.1x in 4.x compatibility mode but cannot print. Understandable
- >since Solaris 2.x is SVR4 which uses the lp print mechanism. So I select
- >print to a file, which completes (rather a little too quickly) but the
- >resulting file is in MIF format, not Postscript, which means the the
- >postscript driver/filter puked with no error message.
-
- Look at $FMHOME/.fminitx.x/FMlpr. This is the script that executes to
- send output to the printer. You should be able to modify it. The only
- problem may be that FMARCH may be the same for both 4.x and Solaris
- 2.1.
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