[oclug] [OT] ease of use

Michael P. Soulier msoulier at storm.ca
Wed Nov 27 08:31:28 EST 2002


On 27/11/02 Jon Earle did speaketh:

> At work, I've got Debian 3.0 installed, using KDE.  If I want to print
> text from the commandline (say, /etc/hosts), I have to use CUPS to convert
> the text to postscript before printing, otherwise the output will be
> staggered (the next line begins one line down, but at the end of the
> previous line).  If I use CUPS though, I can't print from Mozilla.  So,

    Odd. I typically just use apps that produce postscript. Mozilla is fine,
and I produce ps from my documents. Plain text works fine too, although I can
convert that if I want with a2ps. muttprint works great for printing email. 

    Mike

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