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From: Andreas Klemm <andreas@knobel>
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To: -Vince- <vince@kbrown.oldcampus.yale.edu>
cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com>,
        Ollivier Robert <roberto@blaise.ibp.fr>,
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Subject: Re: /etc/printcap for Deskjet 500 and gs 
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On Sun, 2 Apr 1995, -Vince- wrote:

> On Sat, 1 Apr 1995, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> 
> > > Here is my /etc/printcap file
> > > ...
> > 
> > Does anyone "own" printing under FreeBSD?  I've often felt there to be
> > a great, sucking vacuum in the printing side of things and it really
> > would be NIFTY if somebody who actually OWNED A PRINTER (this does not
> > include me) and was kind of DETAIL MINDED actually got mad and angry
> > enough about the poor printer support and DID SOMETHING ABOUT IT.
> > 
> > Any takers? :-)
> > 
> > 					Jordan
> > 
> 
> 	Well, I actually OWN A PRINTER or to be exact, one HP DeskJet 
> 560C, DeskJet Portable 310 and a DeskJet 500 and recently got printing of 
> everything except for dvi files under apsfilter 4.9 delta which I am 
> trying out...  Time to add apsfilter to the ports collection? :-)

Nice to hear, that you are satisfied with it ... Yeah, it works
with FreeBSD 2.X after I received a fix for rewindstdin.

So there should be no problem to add it to the ports list.

	Andreas ///