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Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 18:30:46 +0300
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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In-reply-to: <3AFEA012.EF9614DC@lps.u-psud.fr> (message from taupin on Sun, 13
May 2001 16:54:10 +0200)
Subject: Re: Linux lpr under DJGPP?
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> Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 16:54:10 +0200
> From: taupin <taupin AT lps DOT u-psud DOT fr>
> > 
> >   gs -q -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=ljet4 -rNNNxMMM -sOutputFile=LPT2
> > 
> > You will have to figure out the NNNxMMM arguments (the resolution)
> > yourself, using the Ghostscript docs and your printer's manual.  It's
> > probably 600xSOMETHING.
> 
> Works but with 3 drawbacks:
>  1. does not close the window at end (I mut type "quit")

Add -dBATCH to the switches.  (I refuse to be an efficient replacement
for reading the docs ;-)

>  2. does not accept wild chars (to proceed several files) as does "lpr"
>  3. does not accept gzipped files as does "lpr".

This can be handled with `find' and `xargs'.

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