From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat May 25 21:40:31 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA03449 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 25 May 1996 21:40:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nightmare.dreamchaser.org ([207.40.47.18]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA03444 for ; Sat, 25 May 1996 21:40:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mofo (mofo.dreamchaser.org [206.230.42.91]) by nightmare.dreamchaser.org (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id WAA17595; Sat, 25 May 1996 22:39:44 -0600 Message-ID: <31A7E098.78C@ics.com> Date: Sat, 25 May 1996 22:39:52 -0600 From: Gary Aitken Organization: Integrated Computer Solutions X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b3 (X11; I; SunOS 5.4 sun4c) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Beukema CC: Sean Eric Fagan , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: stty -- not References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk John Beukema wrote: > > I wish someone would sort this out. I remember when I first installed > FBSD I spent 2 days trying to get a simnple epson printer to work. > printcap had 50 varities of high speed line printer entries, teletypes > and devices that have not existed for years but no obvious way to hook up > the printers that make up 99% of the population out there. After 16 to > 20 hours of reading man pages and questions I had to write my own filter > in c to put in cr's. Almost enough to turn newbies back to windoze. > The default configuration should have a setup for a pc printer and an > HPlj3 on both lpt0 and ttyd1, perhaps commented out. I think Sean's fixes in 2.2 will solve most of the problems, but it would be nice to have most common printers covered by default entries. Does it make sense to have people submit their current printcap entries to start a collection? I believe 2.1 comes with a more or less empty printcap. -- Gary Aitken garya@ics.com (business) garya@dreamchaser.org (personal)