From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 5 7:33:29 2001 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 5 07:33:27 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from epicsol.org (epicsol.org [209.100.173.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4717137B400 for ; Fri, 5 Jan 2001 07:33:27 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jnelson@localhost) by epicsol.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA32729; Fri, 5 Jan 2001 09:33:23 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from jnelson) Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 09:33:23 -0600 (CST) From: Jeremy Nelson Message-Id: <200101051533.JAA32729@epicsol.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cups ported X-Newsgroups: freebsd.questions In-Reply-To: <14933.54604.129096.565422@guru.mired.org> Organization: Damage, org. Cc: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >michael Keener types: >> Can anyone within the hallowed grounds of freeBSD.org take a S.W.A.G. >> and tell me when the cups program will be ported?? Mike Meyer wrote: >When someone decides to do it. Which means when someone running >FreeBSD decides it's worth the effort, and submits the port. If you >really want it, you can do it yourself. I can attest to this -- it really isn't all that difficult. I downloaded cups, fixed a syntax error in their code, and installed it. I then down- loaded "gimp-print", which wanted me to install gimp, so I installed the gimp port, and then gimp-print gave me wonderful full-color, postscript-ready CUPS drivers for my humble Epson 860. Works magnificently. It did take a bit of hand wringing to cross all the t's and dot all the i's, but I'm blown away that this USB printer that didn't even seem to be able to do plain text can now print whatever I throw at it. I can help give instructions to someone who wants to do a port, but I myself do not know how to create ports. :/ BTW, I have put a simple program to "wake up" some of these new-fangled epson printers at http://www.acronet.net/~jnelson/epson-wakeup.c if anyone wants or needs it for any purpose. This program is based off of other contributions to freebsd-questions. Jeremy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message