[Lpr-discuss] text on HP SOLVED, I love Debian [tcarroll@chimesnet.com: Bug#106589: systempapername() returned NULL! exiting]

[A M. <debian@Tonelli.sns.it>]

hi

I really love Debian and the Bug Tracking System

and I really appreciate this 10/10 bug that I got,
that solves the problem of 
"why does mpage fails inside the print filters?"
by which I could not print text on my postscript printers

a.

----- Forwarded message from Tom Carroll <tca...@ch...> -----

>From debian  Wed Jul 25 22:48:22 2001
Subject: Bug#106589: systempapername() returned NULL! exiting
Reply-To: Tom Carroll <tca...@ch...>, 10...@bu...
Orignal-Sender: Tom Carroll <tca...@ch...>
From: Tom Carroll <tca...@ch...>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <su...@bu...>
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 16:36:47 -0400
Delivered-To: su...@bu...

Package: printtool
Version: 4.03-5
Severity: important
Tags: sid

The mpage package requires libpaperg.  libpaperg uses the environmental
variable PAPERSIZE as an override to locate the file /etc/papersize. Since
this variable is exported within general.cfg, systempapername() in libpaper
returns NULL.

The quick fix is to export PAPERCONF=$PAPERSIZE within general.cfg.  
PAPERCONF is the papersize override within libpaperg.  systempapername() 
returns a non-NULL value as PAPERCONF has priority over PAPERSIZE within libpaperg.

-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux orbis.internal.chc-chimes.com 2.4.7-pre8 #4 Thu Jul 19 10:56:45 EDT 2001 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages printtool depends on:
ii  gs                            5.50-8     Postscript interpreter with X11 an
ii  lpr-ppd                       1:0.71-4   BSD lpr/lpd line printer spooling 
ii  pconf-detect                  0.3-4      A small command-line utility to au
ii  tk8.3                         8.3.2-5    The Tk toolkit for TCL and X11 v8.
ii  tk8.3 [wish]                  8.3.2-5    The Tk toolkit for TCL and X11 v8.
ii  tkstep8.0 [tk8.0]             8.0.4p2-4  The NEXTSTEP(tm)-like version of t
ii  tkstep8.0 [wish]              8.0.4p2-4  The NEXTSTEP(tm)-like version of t



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