Re: Printing from Insight???

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From: Ashmeet Sidana
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1993 17:38

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turcotm@med05.MEDCN.UMontreal.CA (Turcotte Marcel) writes:

>In article <C8tv33.Hno@odin.corp.sgi.com> as@sgi.com (Ashmeet Sidana) writes:
>
>> In article <1993Jun17.224946.5217@llyene.jpl.nasa.gov>
>> robert@triton.Jpl.Nasa.Gov writes:
>
>>  >We have BSD printing running on our indigo and want to print from within
>>  >Insight.  When I invoke the print option of Insight, no printers are
>>  >listed in the printers XmList which means I can't select a printer to
>>  >print to.  How do I print from within Insight???
>
>> Insight uses the SysV spooler so you have to
>> define a SysV printer to print from Insight.
>
>> There are several mechanisms to fake out the
>> sysV spooler to print to a BSD printer, the
>> simplest being a shell script called "lp"
>> that simply renames options and prints with
>> "lpr".
>
>Are we talking about insightII from Biosym Tech? If so, edit your file
>printer_info in the $INSIGHT_HELP directory and add a line for each
>printer you want to see in the chooser.

Sorry, I thought you were interested in IRIS Insight, our online
documentation system. 

---Ashmeet Sidana
   as@sgi.com

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