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Date:      Sun, 22 Sep 1996 18:52:54 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Jan Brosius <jan.brosius@club.innet.be>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Printer support
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.960922185128.298I-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3244B3A0.7BEB@club.innet.be>

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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




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