From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Apr 1 23:39:24 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id XAA25533 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 1 Apr 1995 23:39:24 -0800 Received: from estienne.cs.berkeley.edu (estienne.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.42.147]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id XAA25527 for ; Sat, 1 Apr 1995 23:39:23 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by estienne.cs.berkeley.edu (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id XAA15506; Sat, 1 Apr 1995 23:39:09 -0800 Message-Id: <199504020739.XAA15506@estienne.cs.berkeley.edu> X-Authentication-Warning: estienne.cs.berkeley.edu: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: roberto@blaise.ibp.fr (Ollivier Robert), freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD Hackers' list) Subject: Re: /etc/printcap for Deskjet 500 and gs In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 01 Apr 1995 22:38:05 PST." <24390.796804685@freefall.cdrom.com> Date: Sat, 01 Apr 1995 23:39:09 -0800 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> 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 ==============================================