Re: apsfilter: can't determine the lpd spool directory

["Stefan M. Brandl" <smb@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 04:03:27PM +0100, Michael Loßin wrote:
> "Stefan M. Brandl" wrote:
> > 
> > Hi there,
> > today I've installed apsfilter-6.0.0 bu t I can't get it top work.
> > Everytime I try to ptinz something I get the following errormail:
> > 
> > apsfilter fatal error: can't determine the lpd spool directory
> > 
> > Please fix your lpd or stop printing to remote printers
> > directly.
> 
> The error message pretty much says it all, doesn't it?
> You just can't use filters with remote printers (at least
> not with your spooler, which is most probably BSD-like).
> 

Hm, I was using an older Version of apsfilter with remote printers
for years and never had any problems with it.
So I thought it should work with V6.0.0 as well.

> 
> Is is really that hard to read the FAQ first?

No it isn't, but I didn't look for the right topic.

> http://www.apsfilter.org/docs/faq/chap-errors.html#AEN189
> (in case you don't want to use LPRng).
> 

OK, thanks for that link.


Stefan