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Date:      Thu, 09 Dec 1999 09:35:42 +0200
From:      Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To:        "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@monkeys.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Help! Simple printer problem becomes a major documentation beef. 
Message-ID:  <41961.944724942@axl.noc.iafrica.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 08 Dec 1999 18:59:21 PST." <3068.944708361@monkeys.com> 

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On Wed, 08 Dec 1999 18:59:21 PST, "Ronald F. Guilmette" wrote:

> I mean geeezzz!  I only want to cat a bleedin' Postscript file to my
> bleedin' Postscript printer fer cryin' out loud!  Why can't I just
> do that?  Why does life have to be so complicated?  Why can Linux,
> straight- out-of-the-box, do this but FreeBSD (with a mostly GENERIC
> kernel) can't?

Why must you insist on operating on a lower level than is necessary?
just bite the bullet and use lpr.  It's really not that much effort. :-)

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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