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From: mike@raven.uss.tek.com (Mike Ewan)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Perl Reference Guide 3.044 - Part 1 of 4
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Date: 26 Jan 91 21:55:06 GMT
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In article <9233@cognos.UUCP> garyp@cognos.UUCP (Gary Puckering) writes:
>
>I commented out the PAPER = -a4 line in the Makefile.  "make
>refguide.ps" seemed to go ok.  lpr refguide.ps spooled a file for
>printing, the printer light flashed for awhile, then it stopped.  The
>job seemed to just die (with no apparent indication of failure).

When this happens to me, it means that I sent a Postscript 2.0 file
to our old dumb printer that only understands Postscript 1.0.  Look
in the error log file for the printer.  If you don't have an error
log then enable it in /etc/printcap.

Mike


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