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Date: Fri, 7 Apr 1995 15:27:56 -0400 (EDT)
From: -Vince- <vince@kbrown.oldcampus.yale.edu>
To: Andreas Klemm <andreas@knobel.gun.de>
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 Fri, 7 Apr 1995, Andreas Klemm wrote:

> 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.
> 

	Well, 99% satisfied now :-)

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

	Well, except for the fact that printing dvi's doesn't work in 4.9 
while it did in 4.8.1..

Cheers,
Vince -*vince@kbrown.oldcampus.yale.edu*-
UCLA Physics/Electrical Engineering