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From: andreas@knobel.gun.de (Andreas Klemm)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: I know it's not sexy but it's about this printer.............
Date: 26 Dec 1995 14:02:46 GMT
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Message-ID: <4bova6$al@knobel.gun.de>
References: <817141958.10508@org29.demon.co.uk> <DJ4H4G.4xK@tigger.jvnc.net> <4a365h$col@zuul.nmti.com> <4a7och$pq8@agate.berkeley.edu> <4ak8am$nk0@ra.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de>
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To: y0001415@ws.rz.tu-bs.de (Martin Butkus)
In article <4ak8am$nk0@ra.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de>,
y0001415@ws.rz.tu-bs.de (Martin Butkus) writes:
>Anthony Monroe (tmonroe@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU) wrote:
>: In article <4a365h$col@zuul.nmti.com>, Peter da Silva <peter@nmti.com> wrote:
>: >How do you tell APS "if it's just a text file, then just print it"?
>: >
>: >I installed aps, then immediately deinstalled it. I don't like it running
>: >Ghostscript just for listings...
>
>: I tried apsfilter once, and had a similar dislike.
>
>: I finally got off my but, borrowed a shell script from my roommate, and ended
>: up writing a Perl program to use as the input filter. If apsfilter is broken
>: enough to not recognize plain text, then maybe you should get my program.
>
>You can always enforce plain printing by doing a
>
>lpr -Praw foo.txt
>
>For HP Deskjets you'll have to tweak /etc/apsfilterrc a bit though to get
>the linefeeds treated correctly when printing text.
Sometimes people run very old apsfilter releases...
4.9.3 is the newest in the FreeBSD ports collection.
Runs very fine and you are able to
a) print "raw" via 'lpr -Praw file'
b) force a text (with special characters) to be printed as ASCII
text via 'lpr -Pascii'
c) printing with file type auto recognition, the default...
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