From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Apr 7 15:45:42 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id PAA22536 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 7 Apr 1995 15:45:42 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id PAA22529 ; Fri, 7 Apr 1995 15:45:41 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.cdrom.com: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: Andreas Klemm cc: J Wunsch , FreeBSD hackers Subject: Re: /etc/printcap for Deskjet 500 and gs In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 07 Apr 95 20:51:23 +0200." Date: Fri, 07 Apr 1995 15:45:41 -0700 Message-ID: <22528.797294741@freefall.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Although I have a working setup script in apsfilter, it's perhaps > a bit clumsy compared to Jordans work ... any volunteers ?! ;-) It would please me greatly to see someone catch this and take it the rest of the way towards: 1. apsfilter-4.9D becoming a full port and package. 2. apsfilter having a nice setup screen. It sould like Andreas has already made a start, and it just needs a little polishing to turn into into something dialog based. PLEASE! If everyone could just start including a simple "install.sh" script meant to be run by total novices, we could start REALLY making this whole install thing hang together in a way that's truly EASY to use! Remember that a novice isn't just a newbie, it's somebody who is new to FreeBSD. This includes serious hackers who are simply too busy to learn how to set up their printer "the FreeBSD way" and would much rather just click a button, get it over with and then go on to their REAL work. I'm rather annoyed with people who see this as "dumbing down" FreeBSD when it's really just making it much less of a pain in the ass to set up! :-) Jordan