Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!rex!ukma!sean From: sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey) Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386 Subject: How to drive a postscript printer in SysV 3.2 Message-ID: Date: 6 Jun 90 22:43:58 GMT Organization: The Leaning Tower of Patterson Office @ The Univ. of KY Lines: 24 I got several replies to my request. None of them were the least bit helpful "you're sending it a text file". "Your system is messed up." "Blah blah blah." So, after digging through the manuals, here's what you do: Make a file, call it anything, with the following contents: #!/bin/sh shift; shift; shift; shift; shift; cat $* Then: /usr/lib/lpadmin -pprintername -ifilename -v/dev/devicename enable printername /usr/lib/accept printername -- *** Sean Casey sean@ms.uky.edu, sean@ukma.bitnet, ukma!sean