From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 3 8:17:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.22.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABAC037B417 for ; Thu, 3 Jan 2002 08:17:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g03GHAk59664; Thu, 3 Jan 2002 11:17:11 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <200112312106978.SM02384@there> References: <200112312106978.SM02384@there> Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 11:17:09 -0500 To: chip , questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: cups compared to lp, or does it? Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.1 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 9:07 PM -0800 12/31/01, chip wrote: >I am wondering just what is cups? I see no man page for it, I checked >the freebsd.org web site and find the only info appears to be the >description for the port. Is there another source for info about cups? The ports collection is a very very useful collection of programs which are *not* part of FreeBSD, but which are setup to compile on freebsd. While FreeBSD would not have any man page for CUPS, I assume that if you installed that CUPS port then it would also install documentation (including man pages) for CUPS. I'm sure you could build the port without installing it, and then find the documentation in the working directories. Compared to most other ports, CUPS is a fairly substantial project in it's own right, and there is a web site devoted to it. If you don't want to rummage around in the port, you could probably get a lot of information by starting at: http://www.cups.org/ There is also at least one book available on CUPS. >Is it something I might want to use instead of the default printer >program? (I have two printers, hp inkjet 680C and epson inkjet >colorstylus 400.) I have not used CUPS, so I can't say for sure. However, it might be that all you want to do is to install the 'apsfilter' port, and let that handle translation of print jobs to the specific printers that you have. CUPS vs lpr vs lp vs LPRng is a choice between the ways to *spool* jobs for a printer (or a collection of printers). You may very well want to use CUPS for some of the features it provides, but your question sounds more like you just want to know how to translate various types of print jobs so they print correctly on your printers. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message