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On 8/13/2008 7:13 PM, Brian Dessent wrote:
> r wrote:
> 
>> $ gsprint test2.ps
>> Copyright (C) 2003-2006, Ghostgum Software Pty Ltd.  All Rights Reserved.
>> 2006-02-24 gsprint 1.9
>> GPL Ghostscript 8.63 (2008-08-01)
>> Copyright (C) 2008 Artifex Software, Inc.  All rights reserved.
>> This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details.
>> Page 1, PRINT
> 
> This should in theory work, but you'd need to configure ghostscript
> (through command line arguments or whatever) to tell it what kind of
> printer you have so that it can translate postscript into the format
> that the printer can understand -- assuming that ghostscript supports
> your printer model.

If you use the native windows version of gsprint, it will print a 
postscript file on the default windows printer.  (Or you can specify the 
  windows name of the printer on the command line.)  See also the bash 
script at the bottom of 
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2000-11/msg01442.html

Ken

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