Newbe Question: Actually two questions ?

[Marcel Kunath]

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> > I am truely a newbe to this.  My Linux education has been mostly errors for
> > many trials.
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> One of the best ways to learn.

In my case it seems to be the only way I ever learned =). BTW I think your
printcap file is missing some filter option.

My printcap:
smurf:cm=Parallel Printer smurf
  :lp=/dev/lp0
  :sd=/var/spool/lpd/%P
  :filter=/usr/local/libexec/filters/ifhp

You don't have to use ifhp. You can download ifhp from www.astart.com and
following link to LPRng and from there to the ifhp source.

You may want to install enscript as well and run:

enscript -dprintername file.txt

Or use dpk's favorite magicfilter.

mk