[19795] in Athena Bugs
Re: dvips -Ppdf on the dialups
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Boris Zbarsky)
Sat Sep 15 14:56:46 2001
Message-Id: <200109151856.OAA03919@no-knife.mit.edu>
To: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU, webmaster@MUFASA.MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 15 Sep 2001 14:23:31 EDT."
<200109151823.OAA26862@riff-raff.mit.edu>
Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 14:56:43 -0400
From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
> Could you please be more specific than "doesn't work"
Sure. My apologies:
/tmp% dvips -Ppdf math-symbols.dvi
dvips: warning: no config file for `pdf'
dvipsk 5.66a Copyright 1986-97 Radical Eye Software (www.radicaleye.com)
' TeX output 1999.05.06:0940' -> | lpr -Ppdf
<texc.pro>. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] Status Information:
sending job 'bzbarsky@no-knife+697' to pdf@localhost
connecting to 'localhost', attempt 1
cannot open connection to localhost - Connection refused
Make sure LPD server is running on the server
job 'bzbarsky@no-knife+697' transfer to pdf@localhost failed
So perhaps the problem is the lack of a config file for 'pdf'?
> I was just able to use "dvips -Ppdf" on one of the dialups without
> difficulty.
I've just tried it on all-night-tool and no-knife (athena.dialup and
x.dialup). Both give the errors above.
Boris
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