TEXFIX(1)

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💖 TEXFIX(1) 💖

okay bestie, sit down, grab a boba, because today we're talking about texfix — the little section-1 command that lives in the General Commands Manual and exists purely to fix (or escape) a bug of ROM in some printer. yes. a printer bug. from 1992. iconic behavior honestly.

✨ NAME ✨

texfix — fix (or escape) a bug of ROM in some printer.

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

texfix

that's it. no flags. no arguments. she takes zero notes and needs zero input. a minimalist queen 🫶

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so this manual page documents briefly the texfix command. and real talk: this page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution, because the original command hadn't a manual page. like, at all. not one. so Atsuhito stepped in and gave us this. we love a rescue mission 💅

now. with some printer, dvi2ps could fail to run with an error message like:

papif: Starting job for kazama@square at Thu Mar 26 15:04:04 1992 on
printer NTX-J[M5-112B]:LaserWriter@*
Fatal system error @ 0X400f2fc0
papif: Finished job at Thu Mar 26 15:04:41 1992

and that? that is a whole mood, and not a good one. 😭

this is because there is a bug of old ROM in some printer. yep — old ROM, some printer, very vague, very mysterious, we don't know which one, the manpage is not telling. to fix (or escape) this bug, texfix might be useful. note the might, bestie — she's not out here making promises she can't keep, she's just out here being available. 😌

⭐ EXAMPLES ⭐

here's the whole vibe, one line, one pipe chain, chef's kiss:

dvi2ps foo.dvi | texfix | lpr

dvi2ps makes the output, texfix does her little fix-or-escape thing, lpr sends it to the printer. a three-girl relay race and they all ate. 🏃♀️💨

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

  • dvi2ps(1) — the friend she's always paired with in these stories 🫶

👑 AUTHOR 👑

this manual page was written by Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). so generous. so giving. the but may be used by others is genuinely the most wholesome licensing energy fr fr 🌈

ngl there are no options, no environment variables, no exit statuses, no files and no bugs listed on this page — because that's literally everything the original page had. don't come for me, come for the ROM bug 💀

and that's the whole page, bestie — this lil writeup came to you from the General Commands Manual, section 1, texfix(1), and no, there's no date stamp on it, which is very mystery-girl of her 💅✨

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