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a2ps-4.13-1 packaging problem
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 10:50:39 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: a2ps-4.13-1 packaging problem
- Reply-to: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
David,
The a2ps-4.13-1 package has a slight problem. First off, the
/etc/a2ps-site.cfg should be installed by a post-install script, otherwise
it'll be overwritten on every reinstall (and you don't want that, that
file is intended for site-specific configuration).
Another couple of problems with the default a2ps-site.cfg (one reported in
<http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-11/msg00573.html>) can be fixed by the
patch below. HTH,
Igor
--- /etc/a2ps-site.cfg-orig 2003-08-22 12:12:19.000000000 -0400
+++ /etc/a2ps-site.cfg 2003-11-14 10:48:20.085779200 -0500
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
Options: --encoding=latin1
# Default medium
-Options: --medium=A4
+Options: --medium=Letter
#################################################################
# 2) Your printers #
@@ -45,14 +45,14 @@ DefaultPrinter: | #{lp.default}
# the name of the printer (a2ps -P <printer-name>), but <printer-name>
# is not specified below as a special case.
# <printer-name> is available here as `#o'.
-UnknownPrinter: | #{lp} #o
+UnknownPrinter: | #{lp} "#o"
### Some special printers.
# This section is to fill only if you want to tune your system.
# The entry `UnknownPrinter' is enough to handle any case.
# For instance, I want to specify that arlette is a Level 2 PostScript
-# printer. I specif no command, so the `UnknownPrinter' command will
+# printer. I specify no command, so the `UnknownPrinter' command will
# be used.
#Printer: arlette level2
@@ -71,3 +71,8 @@ UnknownPrinter: | #{lp} #o
# This example uses the fact that `$N' expands in the input file name,
# so a2ps foo -P gzip will save the output in foo.ps.gz.
#Printer: gzip | gzip -c > $N.#..gz
+
+# You could even show the resulting postscript on-screen
+# It is better not to pipe into ghostview
+#Variable: ghostview ghostview -dNOPLATFONTS
+#Printer: display | cat > #f0 && #{ghostview} `cygpath -w #f0`
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