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by **Andrew Steve** » Fri, 11 Jun 1993 00:48:22

Is there anyone out there who has succesfully set up a dvi -> whatever
filter using /etc/printcap from the current SLS?

I've been hacking away on this for some time, but for some reason
the filter always seems to hang on input. E.g.

#!/bin/sh
# My df= filter ...
cat > /tmp/somefile$$.dvi
...loads of dvips and ghostscripting...

results in a blocked cat process when you execute
lpr -d somefile.dvi

Andrew

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by **Gerhard Friesland-Koep** » Fri, 11 Jun 1993 05:27:19

this is a minor mistake in the lpd-faq:
dvips is used as an example for a filter,
but it cannot be piped - in general -

i use a :vf-filter for postscript and install dvips
- as suggested - in ../config.ps to pipe into lpr -v,
then you just do: dvips example.dvi and it pipes
directly to the postscript-filter.

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Printcap -d filter (etc)

Printcap -d filter (etc)

Printcap -d filter (etc)