The initial question:
> Ok, so the "better" depends on user preference, but I'm used to DCPS on
> VMS (and apparently Ultrix) and the ability to print in 2-up or 4-up to
> a page. Anyone know of a replacement for the OSF/1 v2.0 (or v3.0) lpr
> that makes this type of printing possible?
>
> ... or do I need to find a filter somewhere to handle this stuff?
>
The answers (since I proposed two possibilities):
1. "lpr does this. -N2 etc are supported." "since V1.3"
I can't find but you'll not find me claiming to be an expert at this.
It's not in the man pages of either of our OSF/1 boxes (v1.3 and v2.0b)
but we may very well have left out critical bits when we installed the
system software. "Nah, we won't need *that* stuff." :^)
2. "Check out ... a demo of LPSprint software for OSF"
Hey, we're a cheap bunch around here. It's free software or nothing -
it's not like we're an IS dept and only use packages with 3+ digit
price tags.
3. "Go with mpage" "There's always nenscript, but mpage seems ... better"
This falls in nicely with the Cheap-Software-R-Us mentality and I've
found mpage and also nenscript - haven't tried either, yet.
<a href=
ftp://ftp.cs.ruu.nl/pub/TEX/TOOLS/mpage.tar.gz>mpage</a>
<a href=
ftp://mcsun.eu.net/os/linux/util/text/nenscript-1.13++.bin.tar.z>nen</a>
4. "a macro package ... called PSUtils"
Another candidate for us - and I found PSUtils at a number of European
aftp sites - no luck using my local Archie to find North American sites,
though. Just another excuse to bash on the Trans-Atlantic ...
<a href=
ftp://asterix.fi.upm.es/pub/unix/psutils.tar.gz>PSUtils</a>
Thanks to:
Jacy Canute <jacy_at_fluid.mro.dec.com>
Jon Howell <jonh_at_hitl.washington.edu>
Stam Nicolis <nicolis_at_celfi.phys.univ-tours.fr>
Matt Thomas <thomas_at_lkg.dec.com>
andrew. (brennan_at_hal.hahnemann.edu)
Received on Fri Jan 13 1995 - 17:09:51 NZDT