Date: Sat, 01 Apr 1995 23:39:09 -0800 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@estienne.CS.Berkeley.EDU> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com> Cc: roberto@blaise.ibp.fr (Ollivier Robert), freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD Hackers' list) Subject: Re: /etc/printcap for Deskjet 500 and gs Message-ID: <199504020739.XAA15506@estienne.cs.berkeley.edu> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 01 Apr 1995 22:38:05 PST." <24390.796804685@freefall.cdrom.com>
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>> Here is my /etc/printcap file >> ... > >Does anyone "own" printing under FreeBSD? I've often felt there to be >a great, sucking vacuum in the printing side of things and it really >would be NIFTY if somebody who actually OWNED A PRINTER (this does not >include me) and was kind of DETAIL MINDED actually got mad and angry >enough about the poor printer support and DID SOMETHING ABOUT IT. > >Any takers? :-) > > Jordan What is needed is a simple front end that asks for a few things that are common to all printers (name, remote?, spool directory, error-log file?, etc), asks for the printer type, fetchs the printcap for this model printer that has been submitted and munges it based on the answers given. Someon who knows perl (I don't) should be able to do this pretty easily. -- Justin T. Gibbs ============================================== TCS Instructional Group - Programmer/Analyst 1 Cory | Po | Danube | Volga | Parker | Torus ==============================================
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