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a2ps and stdout
From: |
L.Wood |
Subject: |
a2ps and stdout |
Date: |
Thu, 26 May 2011 12:21:12 +0100 |
a2ps on solaris - dumps to stdoout, you can redirect to printer with | lpr
a2ps on e.g. ubuntu - sends straight to default printer.
I submit that the ubuntu approach is broken, and wastes paper - it's a2ps, not
a2ps2printer. With -o for output file, you have to do '-o -' to get output to
stdout so you can pipe it under your control. This is not the unix piping way,
which is the default for sane reasons. It's a bug, and no doubt one you've
heard complaints on before.
When did gnu started deprecating output to stdout?
thanks,
Lloyd Wood
http://sat-net.com/L.Wood
- a2ps and stdout,
L.Wood <=