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problem with dvi2ps output

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed Mar 29 03:58:23 1989

Date: Wed, 29 Mar 89 03:53 EST
From: Paul Krause <pfkrause@WHEATIES.AI.MIT.EDU>
To: tuna@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: bug-sipb@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <19890328131907.1.PFKRAUSE@WORKER-4.AI.MIT.EDU>
    Date: Tue, 28 Mar 89 08:19 EST
    From: Paul Krause <pfkrause@wheaties.ai.mit.edu>

    There's an easier way.  dvi2ps has a -r option which turns off page reversal.
    Here's an alias that you can use to hardcopy dvi files.

    alias lpr-d	'dvi2ps -r \!*.dvi | lpr -J\!*.dvi -T\!*.dvi; lpq'

    (note that I'm lazy so I set this up so that it always appends .dvi to the filename.
    i.e. dvi-d file == dvi -d file.dvi (or it would if dvi -d worked on athena))
         ^^^           ^^^                             ^^^
Oops. I meant to say lpr (not dvi).  Hope no one was too confused.

					    -paul

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