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- From: corson@infodyn.com (Tom Corson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps
- Subject: Re: Problems with :manualfeed in pl (NeWSprint)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov3.073810.18177@infodyn.com>
- Date: 3 Nov 92 07:38:10 GMT
- References: <27574@castle.ed.ac.uk>
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- In article <27574@castle.ed.ac.uk> mfg@castle.ed.ac.uk (M Gordon) writes:
- >Can anyone tell me what's wrong with this attempt to print something using
- >the manual paper feed on a sparcprinter. The command I'm using is
- >
- > ~newsprint/bin/pl --e "/usr/local/bin/lpr -Psparc" unnamed.ps :manualfeed
- >
- >(/usr/local/bin/lpr is a local wrapper around /usr/ucb/lpr).
- >
- >The :manualfeed seems to have no effect. Adding the contents of the
- >file ~newsprint/pl.sun4/C/include/manualfeed.ps to the start of the
- >file I'm trying to print makes the manual feed work as expected.
- >
- >--
- > _ _ _ _ _
- >Michael Gordon - mfg@castle.ed.ac.uk OR ee.ed.ac.uk | |_| |_| |__| |_| |
- >Computing Officer, EE Dept, Edinburgh University | . . . . . . |
- >It's not an optical illusion, it just looks like one |_________|~~|_____|
- If the "unnamed.ps" is not Structured Postscript, psinj (which is used by the
- manualfeed macro) will not be able to insert the contents of manualfeed.ps.
- This seems to fit your problem description...
-
- HTH,
- TC
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