excuse me, would someone please reinstate my sanity and disconfirm that suse 7.0 does *not* come with mpage - and neither could i find mpage on suse.com??? what the heck are they thinking??? i don't want to install the vividata or applixware rpms just to get one of the most useful unix utilities ever... martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo madduck@!#:1:s@\@@@.net -- as of next week, passwords will be entered in morse code.
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 03:48:04PM -0500, MaD dUCK wrote:
excuse me, would someone please reinstate my sanity and disconfirm that suse 7.0 does *not* come with mpage - and neither could i find mpage on suse.com??? what the heck are they thinking??? i don't want to install the vividata or applixware rpms just to get one of the most useful unix utilities ever...
Up to my best knowledge, mpage is not there. Try to use a2ps instead. Almost the same (or better) functionality. -Kastus
martin
also sprach Konstantin (Kastus) Shchuka (on Thu, 25 Jan 2001 02:17:53PM -0800):
Up to my best knowledge, mpage is not there. Try to use a2ps instead. Almost the same (or better) functionality.
and how do you use a2ps (_A_scii _2_ _PS_) to mpage -4 a postscript file? i don't think anything can replace mpage... suse must have had a bad day... martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo madduck@!#:1:s@\@@@.net -- xerox does it again and again and again and ...
You can download and install mpage. works like a charm , just DL it unzip it and run the make and install script and place it in /usr/li=b or something like that. Hey If I can do it , any one can do it. Do a search on freshmeat or slashdot for it. I neede it for some prit driver stuff from the printer driver page. At 09:38 AM 1/26/2001 -0500, MaD dUCK wrote:
also sprach Konstantin (Kastus) Shchuka (on Thu, 25 Jan 2001 02:17:53PM -0800):
Up to my best knowledge, mpage is not there. Try to use a2ps instead. Almost the same (or better) functionality.
and how do you use a2ps (_A_scii _2_ _PS_) to mpage -4 a postscript file?
i don't think anything can replace mpage... suse must have had a bad day...
martin
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also sprach Samy Elashmawy (on Fri, 26 Jan 2001 07:14:51AM +0000):
You can download and install mpage. works like a charm , just DL it unzip it and run the make and install script and place it in /usr/li=b or something like that. Hey If I can do it , any one can do it. Do a search on freshmeat or slashdot for it. I neede it for some prit driver stuff from the printer driver page.
that's not my point. my point is what went through SuSE's heads when they did not include mpage as an RPM. Even RedHat does that... martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo madduck@!#:1:s@\@@@.net -- "i am a deeply superficial person." -- andy warhol
MaD dUCK wrote:
also sprach Samy Elashmawy (on Fri, 26 Jan 2001 07:14:51AM +0000):
You can download and install mpage. works like a charm , just DL it unzip it and run the make and install script and place it in /usr/li=b or something like that. Hey If I can do it , any one can do it. Do a search on freshmeat or slashdot for it. I neede it for some prit driver stuff from the printer driver page.
that's not my point. my point is what went through SuSE's heads when they did not include mpage as an RPM. Even RedHat does that...
I think the sensible thing is to suggest this to feedback@suse.de. There might have been a reason for this, or everybody is so used to a2ps so they never thought about a need for an alternative... Juergen -- =========================================== __ _ Juergen Braukmann juergen.braukmann@gmx.de| -o)/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ Tel: 0201-743648 dk4jb@db0qs.#nrw.deu.eu | /\\ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / ===========================================_\_v __/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\
At 12:59 PM 1/26/2001 -0500, MaD dUCK wrote:
also sprach Samy Elashmawy (on Fri, 26 Jan 2001 07:14:51AM +0000):
You can download and install mpage. works like a charm , just DL it unzip it and run the make and install script and place it in /usr/li=b or something like that. Hey If I can do it , any one can do it. Do a search on freshmeat or slashdot for it. I neede it for some prit driver stuff from the printer driver page.
No big deal , just DL it and compile it.
that's not my point. my point is what went through SuSE's heads when they did not include mpage as an RPM. Even RedHat does that...
martin
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Hi, On Fri, Jan 26 2001 at 09:38 -0500, MaD dUCK wrote:
also sprach Konstantin (Kastus) Shchuka (on Thu, 25 Jan 2001 02:17:53PM -0800):
Up to my best knowledge, mpage is not there. Try to use a2ps instead. Almost the same (or better) functionality.
and how do you use a2ps (_A_scii _2_ _PS_) to mpage -4 a postscript file?
You just don't. psnup -4 will do the job. Ciao, Stefan -- Stefan Troeger o _ _ _ stefan@troeger.st __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) _`\<, _`\<, _>(_) (_)/<_ \_| \ _|/' \/ (_)/(_) (_)/(_) (_) (_) (_) (_)' _\o_
also sprach Stefan Troeger (on Fri, 26 Jan 2001 05:30:33PM +0100):
You just don't. psnup -4 will do the job.
okay, that will. nevertheless, i still consider mpage to be more standard, especially if you are a solaris descendant like me, or if you switch between different boxes all the time. they all have mpage... anyway, the tarball did its job. maybe suse could nevertheless provide an mpage package in 7.1... martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo madduck@!#:1:s@\@@@.net -- "a mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." -- p. erdos
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