On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 15:31:41 -0800, The Real Bev wrote:
> It works fine with windows and with mozilla, netscape, kwrite, kmail and
> open office, but I can't get it to lpr or llpr a standard text file.
> The Samsung people claim to support slackware (for which we should all
> be grateful), but I don't think their 'help' people really understand
> the question. I just want to print text files (program listings,
> mostly) like in the old days, not with a word processor. Any hope?
>
> And does anybody know of a linux word processor that will allow 15 or 20
> columns in a 4-point or smaller font? Word Perfect can't see the
> Samsung, abiword can't even load the file I want to print, open office
> is nice but the smallest font is 6 point, kwrite won't do columns...

Hi Bev. I'm at work at the moment (sigh) but if you could give me anexample
of the typesof commands that are failing , e.g lpr file.txt; cat file.txt >
lpr etc.

I use an Okidata ML 390 with cups and I'm sure I can do what you want

Rinaldi
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