Re: Ghostscript options (Was Re: Automating faxes)

[Uri Shkolnik <uri@harmonic.co.il>]

This is working for me (part of my faxrcvd)

FILE="$1"
DEVICE="$2"
COMMID="$3"
MSG="$4"
SENDER="`$INFO $FILE | $AWK -F: '/Sender/ { print $2 }' 2>/dev/null`"
PRINTER=lj4-1
SENDMAIL=/usr/lib/sendmail



TIF1=/tmp/fax1$$.tif
TIF2=/tmp/fax2$$.tif
TIF3=/tmp/fax3$$.tif
TIFFCP=/usr/local/bin/tiffcp
TIFFCONV=/usr/local/bin/mpack


################################
# Printing the fax on $PRINTER #
################################

$FAX2PS $FILE | lpr -P$PRINTER

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On Fri, 31 Jan 1997, Jonathan Chen wrote:

> On Wed, 29 Jan 1997, David Batterham wrote:
> 
> > This brings me to another point, slightly off topic - sorry!. I use LINUX
> > and so want to use Ghostscript to send a ps file to a remote printer
> > (HP laser jet 4 plus). Prob is if a print it through lpr it prints
> > gibberish and secondly ghostscript wont exit from the GS> prompt without
> > manual intervention, I'm using the -DNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE and -OutputFile
> > commands, why won't this work?
> 
> Try:
> 	gs -q -OutputFile=- -sDEVICE=ljet4 -
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