enscript

[Joseph Cain]

I had a nice little program on my Sun OS that somehow got lost in the
upgrade to Solaris 2.5. Does anyone know if something similar to
Enscript exists in Solaris 2.5? Essentially it was a program to format
printed output somewhat, allowing for example, portrait courier 10
in two column mode, and landscape in 8 point so as to be able to get
130 characters across. It also allowed other fonts.

Hmm, I have an uninstalled copy of Transcript, I don't supposed it is
embeded in there somewhere?

Joseph Cain
ca...@gfdi.fsu.edu, @leyla.gfdi.fsu.edu, @gly.fsu.edu ,or @scri.fsu.edu
(904) 644-4014 (office) FAX (904) 644-8972/0098/4214
(904) 385-0227 (residence) http://geomag.gfdi.fsu.edu/~cain

[Steve Kay]

In article <5eiit8$j...@news.fsu.edu>
ca...@geomag.gly.fsu.edu "Joseph Cain" writes:

> I had a nice little program on my Sun OS that somehow got lost in the
> upgrade to Solaris 2.5. Does anyone know if something similar to
> Enscript exists in Solaris 2.5? Essentially it was a program to format
> printed output somewhat, allowing for example, portrait courier 10
> in two column mode, and landscape in 8 point so as to be able to get
> 130 characters across. It also allowed other fonts.
>
> Hmm, I have an uninstalled copy of Transcript, I don't supposed it is
> embeded in there somewhere?

To print 132 columns, stuff like this could be used, supplied in
standard SunOS 5 :-

/usr/lib/lp/postscript/postprint -fCourier -s8 -pland -l60 <file | lp

and use the following arguments for your first questions :-

-fCourier -s10 -n2

Enjoy
--
Steve Kay

[Brian Compston]

Joseph Cain wrote:
>
> I had a nice little program on my Sun OS that somehow got lost in the
> upgrade to Solaris 2.5. Does anyone know if something similar to
> Enscript exists in Solaris 2.5? Essentially it was a program to format
> printed output somewhat, allowing for example, portrait courier 10
> in two column mode, and landscape in 8 point so as to be able to get
> 130 characters across. It also allowed other fonts.
>
> Hmm, I have an uninstalled copy of Transcript, I don't supposed it is
> embeded in there somewhere?
>

> Joseph Cain
> ca...@gfdi.fsu.edu, @leyla.gfdi.fsu.edu, @gly.fsu.edu ,or @scri.fsu.edu
> (904) 644-4014 (office) FAX (904) 644-8972/0098/4214
> (904) 385-0227 (residence) http://geomag.gfdi.fsu.edu/~cain

Try nenscript, available from various sites, I got my copy off the the
UK HP Proting Centre (http://hpux.csc.liv.ac.uk) and it compiles OK for
Solaris.

Brian Compston

[Obed Scott Sands]

Shawn Eugene Patrick Brown wrote:
>
> In article <5eiit8$j...@news.fsu.edu>,

> Joseph Cain <ca...@geomag.gly.fsu.edu> wrote:
> >I had a nice little program on my Sun OS that somehow got lost in the
> >upgrade to Solaris 2.5. Does anyone know if something similar to
> >Enscript exists in Solaris 2.5? Essentially it was a program to format

[snip]
>
> If all you need is an enscript-like program, try genscript from
> prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu.
>
> Shawn
>
> --
> Shawn Brown | sha...@pobox.com | http://www.pobox.com/~shawnb
> "Use of fsdb should be limited to experienced fsdb users." - fsdb(1M) HP-UX

or the 'beta' version of gnu enscript:

http://www.hut.fi/~mtr/genscript/index.html

ftp://alpha.gnu.ai.mit.edu/gnu/enscript-1.4.5.tar.gz

--
O. Scott Sands
sa...@neca.com

[William Charles]

Steve Kay (St...@starbug1.demon.co.uk) wrote:

> In article <5eiit8$j...@news.fsu.edu>
> ca...@geomag.gly.fsu.edu "Joseph Cain" writes:
>

> > I had a nice little program on my Sun OS that somehow got lost in the
> > upgrade to Solaris 2.5. Does anyone know if something similar to
> > Enscript exists in Solaris 2.5? Essentially it was a program to format

> > printed output somewhat, allowing for example, portrait courier 10
> > in two column mode, and landscape in 8 point so as to be able to get
> > 130 characters across. It also allowed other fonts.
> >
> > Hmm, I have an uninstalled copy of Transcript, I don't supposed it is
> > embeded in there somewhere?
>

> To print 132 columns, stuff like this could be used, supplied in
> standard SunOS 5 :-
>
> /usr/lib/lp/postscript/postprint -fCourier -s8 -pland -l60 <file | lp
>
> and use the following arguments for your first questions :-
>
> -fCourier -s10 -n2
>
> Enjoy
> --
> Steve Kay

Alternatively:

http://www.hut.fi/~mtr/genscript/ GNU Enscript Home Page

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