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From: krowitz@mit-richter.UUCP (David Krowitz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re:  postscript printers using lpr
Message-ID: <8802291926.AA28596@EDDIE.MIT.EDU>
Date: 29 Feb 88 18:56:02 GMT
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The reason you get the banners is that the /etc/printcap entry
which pipes output from lpr to prf assumes that the file is
text. (ie. your entry probably is similar to the default one
shipped by Apollo:

#
# This is a sample of printcap entries used by various printers/plotters
#
lp|line printer:\
        :pc=/com/prf -banner off -text -npag -headers off:lp=/dev/null:\
        :sd=/usr/spool/lpd/lp:if=/usr/lib/lpf:\
        :af=/usr/adm/lpacct:lf=/usr/adm/lpd-errs:

). What you could do is to define another entry for printing postscript
files which pipes output from lpr to /com/prf with the -transparent and/or
-postscript switches.


 -- David Krowitz

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