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From: Arthur Wraight <AWraight@compuserve.com>
To: Submit <FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org>
Subject: a2ps v4.3

>Number:         3958
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       a2ps fails if used according to man
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    obrien
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Jun 26 06:20:01 PDT 1997
>Closed-Date:    Sun May 9 11:20:43 PDT 1999
>Last-Modified:  Sun May  9 11:21:24 PDT 1999
>Originator:     Arthur Wraight
>Release:        FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE i386
>Organization:
Logical Consultancy
>Environment:

        a2ps-a4-4.3

>Description:

        Wishing to learn about a2ps I tried to use it in conjuction
        with the manual.  In particular it stated use option -nP
        to avoid piping direct to default printer.  However all it
        did was to invoke option -h to stderr (which is just more
        than one screen).  Careful capture of that did not show -nP.
        I did not want to send ps to my non-ps printer, and it took
        some time to realise the truth.

>How-To-Repeat:

        a2ps -nP file1 > file2     # as on man page 4 (USAGE)

>Fix:
        
        Avoid -P or -nP: it does NOT go direct to printer
        Mention of these on page 2 and under USAGE of man should
        be removed.

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-ports->jmz 
Responsible-Changed-By: fenner 
Responsible-Changed-When: Tue Aug 12 22:33:06 PDT 1997 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
jmz is port maintainer 
Responsible-Changed-From-To: jmz->obrien 
Responsible-Changed-By: fenner 
Responsible-Changed-When: Wed Jan 28 23:25:10 PST 1998 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
obrien is now the port maintainer 
Responsible-Changed-From-To: obrien->chuckr 
Responsible-Changed-By: obrien 
Responsible-Changed-When: Fri Jan 30 13:02:33 PST 1998 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
Chuck does the recent port. 
I'm the anchient :-) port guy. 
Responsible-Changed-From-To: chuckr->obrien 
Responsible-Changed-By: obrien 
Responsible-Changed-When: Sat Feb 28 17:28:19 PST 1998 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
I think this really is my issue. 
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: steve 
State-Changed-When: Sun May 9 11:20:43 PDT 1999 
State-Changed-Why:  
There no longer seems to be an '-nP' option for a2ps.  Is this still 
a problem? 
>Unformatted:
