Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2425 mails)

[bshelton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Brad Shelton)]

On Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 02:27:05PM -0800, Rusty wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I sent a post to this list about how my whole installation was trashed
> by updating from Suse's ftp site.  I'm still pissed about that.
> 
> I have had to reinstall 6.4 and it's too much trouble to install the
> XFree 86 version 4.0 and True Type fonts for my TNT2 card.
> 
> I have a minimal installation now and when I use the command lpr to
> print the file prints on either my HP LaserJet 6MP or my HP DeskJet
> 890cxi with no trouble.  When I try to print from a webpage on Netscape
> I get a an endless series of pages with one or two lines of garbage.  
> 
> You know, I have been having this trouble since 5.3.  At least this time
> I did get a mail message that says, "apsfilter: unable to print job
> stdin"
> 
> Will someone please explain to me why using the print button on the
> Netscape GUI sends the file to standard input?  And also please tell me
> how to make this program operate the way it's supposed to operate.
> 
> I have uninstalled aspfilter, then reinstalled the program to no avail.
> Same problem.
> 
> I have been fighting this for two years; I have read everything about
> printing under Unix/Linux I can lay my hands on and have written to this
> list before.
> 
> All help is appreciated.

In the popup windown when you click "print" in netscape, at the "Print to:"
prompt click "printer", then in the "Print Cmmand: " prompt, put in the
field, "lpr" for your default printer, or to print to a specific printer put
"lpr -P [name of printer] ie. "lp, djet500-letter-auto-mono, whaterver its
alias is".


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