From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 22 21:37:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA06762 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 22 Sep 1996 21:37:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA06726 for ; Sun, 22 Sep 1996 21:37:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id SAA00398; Sun, 22 Sep 1996 18:52:55 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 18:52:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Jan Brosius cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Printer support In-Reply-To: <3244B3A0.7BEB@club.innet.be> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 22 Sep 1996, Jan Brosius wrote: > Does FreeBSD use BSD's FFS format for his files. It uses the standard Fast File System. > What printers does FreeBSD support? Anything you can bludgeon into lpd. > I use Netscape Navigator 2.0 on Windows NT 3.5 on a Pentium > clone. If I download a unix file on my hard disk isn't it then > not automatically converting the format of this unix file into a > FAT file format making the downloaded unix file useless for > further use? The problem is that it's not doing the necessary CR->CR/LF conversion for DOS. You may need to run it through a converter to add these. Take a look at the questions archives for scripts (http://www.freebsd.org). Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major