print jobs disappear

["Russell L. Harris" <rlharris@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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question!

To print man pages, I have been using the following command format:

     a2ps -Php5ps /usr/share/man/man1/apsfilter.1.gz

Usually this works for one or two man pages; but then subsequent attempts 
to print a man page are unsuccessful.  Sometimes the printer (a local 
HPLJ5M connected to /dev/lp0) flashes the message "data received," but 
nothing prints, nor does a print job appear in the print queue.

Also, some man pages print out with a nice border (two pages per 
letter-size sheet), but the text is printed as ASCII rather than as SGML 
(that is, the formatting codes are displayed, rather than being interpreted).


system:
     i386 (Pentium)
     Debian Woody (testing distribution)
     lprng
     apsfilter
     a2ps
     gs-aladdin
     HPLJ5M installed with apsfilterconfig on /dev/lp0

RLH