Date: Fri, 7 Apr 1995 20:26:43 -0400 (EDT) From: -Vince- <vince@kbrown.oldcampus.yale.edu> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com> Cc: Andreas Klemm <andreas@knobel>, J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>, FreeBSD hackers <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: /etc/printcap for Deskjet 500 and gs Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.91.950407202339.2623k@kbrown.oldcampus.yale.edu> In-Reply-To: <22528.797294741@freefall.cdrom.com>
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On Fri, 7 Apr 1995, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > 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. > I'm trying to do that now... > 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! > That's a thought and wouldn't be too hard to do since all the install.sh has to do is call SETUP and dvips_setup.sh but dvips_setup.sh is kind of hard to setup and needs some polishing up. > 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! :-) > I fully agree with you on that one Jordan! It's just yet a feature to make everyone's lives easier :-) > Jordan > > Cheers, Vince -*vince@kbrown.oldcampus.yale.edu*- UCLA Physics/Electrical Engineering
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