William John Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The dvips program defaults to piping its output to a printer. This > is confusing, and can cost money. The normal form of convert commands, > like pdf2ps, produce a file as the default output (with a trailing > hyphen indicating standard out) but dvi2ps is an exception.
I definitely would like such a change, too. Although you can change that behavior yourself in ~/.dvipsrc, I think output to a file should be the default. IMHO printing should only be done if you request that explicitly by lpr(1) or by use of the -P option in dvips. I even wouldn't mind if dvips couldn't print to printer at all and you would have to write "dvips | lpr" to get that. After all, we're on Unix where one tool does one job well and doesn't try to duplicate the functionality of another tool. urs
