Larry Cable <Larry.Cable at nwa.com> wrote: > > When trying to print a text file with the lpr command, I get the > following message...... > > No way to print this type of input file: fsav (linux) virus > (8224-32) > > I can print a mail message from NETSCAPE messenger just fine. > > Anybody ever see this message before?? How can I get rid of it??? Yeah, this is the result of the file(1) command getting confused. That's a program that opens up a file, and reads a few bytes trying to help you determine the type of that file. It's seeing a string or set of bytes that make it think that you've got that weird virus. You might try adding or removing text at the beginning of the file before printing it your file. There might be a strange character in there somewhere, too. -- _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ I saw a bank that said "24 / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ Hour Banking", but I don't \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) have that much time. [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ] -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20011203/08dff850/attachment.pgp