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From: liam@cs.qmw.ac.uk (William Roberts)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: Printing under A/UX 2.0
Message-ID: <2571@sequent.cs.qmw.ac.uk>
Date: 26 Jul 90 13:44:10 GMT
References: <2717@nems.dt.navy.mil>
Organization: Computer Science Dept, QMW, University of London, UK.
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In <2717@nems.dt.navy.mil> scfisher@dtoa1.dt.navy.mil (Fisher) writes:

>Back when I was running A/UX 1.1.1, I could get an application
>to send the printer output to a file instead of to a printer
>by pressing command-F.  Now, when I try to do it under 2.0, It
>comes back & tells me that it can't open the printer (there isn't
>one).  What am I doing wrong.

Under A/UX 2.0 (and indeed under MacOS) you have to have chosen
a printer before you are allowed to do any printing, including
having a PostScript file captured on the disk!


>Also, does anyone know how to make it possible to write a "printer"
>for the chooser that would send a file to the lp spooler instead
>of directly to some printer?  Or send it to a file w/o having to
>do a command-F?

I have hacked the CAP software to use the native AppleTalk support
under A/UX 2.0 - this allows you to use lwsrv to do what you
are asking.
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