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- From: emike@sdc.com (E. Mike Durbin)
- Subject: Re: Frame 3.1x & Solaris 2.x (2.1)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.224021.18415@sdc.com>
- Keywords: printing solaris
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- Organization: Systems Development Corporation
- References: <1ig16gINN7bp@hal.com> <asnyder.726776981@ernie>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 22:40:21 GMT
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- In article <asnyder.726776981@ernie> asnyder@artorg.hmc.psu.edu (Alan J. Snyder) writes:
- >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.
- >--
- >asnyder@ernie.artorg.hmc.psu.edu
-
-
- No. While maker3X.exe is dynamically linked, fmbatch and fmprintdriver.ps
- is not. So you will not be able to print.
-
- The OL version has dynamically linked versions of all the executables
- except fmMfont2bfont.
-
- --
- E. Mike Durbin
- Systems Development Corp. Open Business Systems, Inc.
- emike@sdc.com emike@obs.com
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