lpr with apsfilter

esael · 10-17-2002, 10:35 AM

Hi,

I can't print with lpr and I realise my total directory and file name length is too long.

Is there any way to resolve this?

Esael

jetblackz · 10-17-2002, 10:59 AM

http://jetblackz.freeservers.com/Con...ackware81.html

What did you type to print?

esael · 10-21-2002, 09:51 AM

lpr -Pprintername /directory/directory/directory/very_long_file_name

It worked when the list is about 50 characters but it failed when the list is longer than 60 chars. I don't know the precise point of failure.

figadiablo · 10-23-2002, 07:09 AM

Thats a nice page jetblackz, thankz.

Figa

jetblackz · 10-23-2002, 12:23 PM

esael, Linux command line doesn't accept spaces. You can view the file with * wildcard, but if you try to vi my file.txt. You can't. Use a GUI like StarOffice to open and print.

Thanks, figadiablo

moses · 10-23-2002, 12:49 PM

OT

You can force spaces in the command by using either a \ in front of the
space or double quotes (") around the entire filename. . .

e.g.:

vi "/dir/directory with spaces/file name with spaces"

or

vi /dir/directory\ with\ spaces/file\ name\ with\ spaces

esael · 10-24-2002, 04:23 AM

My long filenamesuses underscore. It was working in Unix.

figadiablo · 10-24-2002, 07:20 AM

This migth be a dumb question, but I haven't found the answer, even after going through the documentation. How do I kill or stop a print job. I do a lpq -L to see all my jobs. But how do I kill them? I have a stalled job and its preventing me from using the printer

Figa

0x0001 · 10-24-2002, 07:28 AM

short: lprm

long: look up the manpage of a tool you used, at the bottom under SEE ALSO there are is a list of programms related to the current tool, man lpq for example lists cancel, lp, lpr, lprm, lpstat.
By using the respective man pages you can easily find out what to use when.

figadiablo · 10-24-2002, 09:12 AM

Thanks you guys, I've been trying to set up my printer under Slack for some time. I've even tried apsfilter before. This time I was finally able to get it going.
Thanks againg.

Figa