Re: print jobs disappear

[Carsten Neumann <deltor@xxxxxxxx>]

Russell,

if you have a proper installed and configured apsfilter you don't need to call a2ps by hand.

This might be the reason for your problems, too.

Regards

	Carsten


On Wed, 09 Oct 2002, Russell L. Harris wrote:
> *** If I am posting to the wrong list, kindly tell me where to post this 
> 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