Re: [a2ps] a2ps config file

[C.G.Senthilkumar.]

I was talking about a windows machine.

The default medium that came with the exe I installed is libpaper.
I want to change that through the .cfg file.

However, I'm not able to get a2ps to read the configuration file.

Thanks,
Senthil.

On Tue, 20 Mar 2007, Nelson H. F. Beebe wrote:

> "C.G.Senthilkumar." <address@hidden> asks where the
> a2ps configuration file should be located.
>
> I have
>
>         $HOME/.a2psrc
>
> You can run truss, trace, strace, or ktrace (depending on Unix flavor)
> on a2ps to see what files it tries to open.
>
> I just did this on Sun Solaris SPARC:
>
>         % truss -o foo.truss -f a2ps foo.c > foo.ps
>         % fgrep /.a2ps foo.truss
>         ...
>         7655:   open("./.a2psrc", O_RDONLY)                     = 4
>
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