Problem with enscript
Dave Horsfall
dave at horsfall.org
Fri Nov 16 00:21:13 UTC 2018
Sierra, latest Macports, GNU Enscript 1.6.6.
Some time ago I discovered that an upgrade (dunno what) had blown away all
my crafted printer definitions, so "enscript" was no longer working; the
error is "lpr: The printer or class does not exist".
I have defined the printer to be "laser-tc" i.e. a laser printer accessed
via the USB port on my Time Capsule, and this has worked for ages.
The "lpr" command itsekf works fine, but when piped from "pr" looks ugly.
Running "enscript -v" shows nothing useful.
I tried to move /usr/bin/lpr aside to replace it with a shell script to
echo its arguments, but:
ozzie:/usr/bin [4]# mv lpr lpr.real
mv: rename lpr to lpr.real: Operation not permitted
ozzie:/usr/bin [5]# cp lpr lpr.real
cp: lpr.real: Operation not permitted
so I guess the file system is protected somehow (even from root!).
If anyone here is using "enscript" can you please tell me how you got it
going? It worked OK here for years, until as I said all my printer
definitions were suddenly blown away (reason unknown).
Thanks.
-- Dave
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