Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2004 16:28:25 +0200 From: Marc Fonvieille <blackend@FreeBSD.org> To: montag@informationsberatung.de Cc: doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Printing documentation Message-ID: <20040808142825.GB34478@abigail.blackend.org> In-Reply-To: <51115.217.231.75.170.1091973633.squirrel@217.231.75.170> References: <51115.217.231.75.170.1091973633.squirrel@217.231.75.170>
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On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 04:00:33PM +0200, montag@informationsberatung.de wrote: > Dear folks from the documentation, > > using FreeBSD for the recent years on a daily basis on the desktop for my > job as a self-employed information broker I'd like first of to express my > thanks to all who work on this wonderful project. > > As now pointed out on slashdot, this article ( > http://www.ofb.biz/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=321) is about > easily setting up a printer. > > This is the only downside of FreeBSD: The bad documentation of apsfilter > as the easy way to printing. It would be absolutely sufficient to put this > as chapter in the handbook - with the permission of the author of course. > This would help the most people with installing the system. The rest may > furtheron write printcaps and fiddle with device-names. > I read that article, and apart a make install in the apsfilter ports directory and a lpd_enable="YES", there's nothing. Sorry to say that. The current printing chapter in the Handbook is really detailled but does not offer a quick and simple printing configuration method for a newcomer. So maybe something about apsfilter is missing. I'll see what I can do. Marc
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