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From: paul@hslrswi.hasler.ascom.ch (Paul Breslaw)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5
Subject: SVR4.0 PostScript Printer Problem
Message-ID: <1952@hslrswi.hasler.ascom.ch>
Date: 25 Apr 91 20:57:33 GMT
References: <1991Apr21.024338.12331@rwwa.COM>
Organization: Ascom Hasler AG, CH-3000 Berne 14, Switzerland
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I'm running SysVR4 on Intel 486 workstations.

We have some remote SunOS/Ultrix PostScript printers which I need
to configure into the spooling system.

I followed the instructions in the Advanced System Management Guide
and configured one logical printer as

    lpadmin -p ps1 -s remote!ps -T PS -I PS

and another as

    lpadmin -p ps2 -s remote!ps -I PS,troff,simple

and another as

    lpadmin -p ps3 -s remote!ps 

Now I want to print a manual page, I guess by

    troff -man mpage.1 | lp -d printer -T troff

If printer is ps1 or ps3 I'm told nothing but it doesn't print.
If printer is ps2 I'm told there is no filter.

If I rip out the troff->postscript filter dpost and run

    troff -man mpage.1 | dpost | lp -d printer

with ps1 or ps3 everything works fine. I forget what happened if
printer is ps2.

Is a remote PostScript printer a PostScript printer type or an unknown
printer type, or something else.

Any suggestions?

Paul Breslaw (paul@hasler.ascom.ch)