Date: Sun, 04 Apr 1999 21:46:46 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: gregm@netidea.com, Rick Hamell <hamellr@dsinw.com>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Timezone question > HP PCL cmds Message-ID: <37084036.B78CCE94@3-cities.com> References: <19990405095153.I2142@lemis.com> <Pine.WNT.3.95.990404172706.-3978117B-100000@bb-b1-11a> <199904050402.VAA24087@everest.netidea.com> <19990405134220.Z2142@lemis.com>
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Greg Lehey wrote: > > On Sunday, 4 April 1999 at 21:05:36 -0700, gregm@netidea.com wrote: > >>>> FWIW, both W95 & NT also both showed the correct time (probably > >>>> because the RTC was correct & both Winblows had "Automatically > >>>> adjust for DST" *unchecked*) although 95 correctly thinks the TZ > >>>> is GMT, Daylight Saving but NT thinks it is just GMT. > >>> > >>> You'd think they'd get these things right, wouldn't you? > >> > >> Really Greg... is this a trick question? :) I wouldn't expect > >> anybody from Microsoft to even know how to turn on a computer... because > >> that's a hardware problem....:) > > > > I've got to say it at the risk of going down in flames. I'm new to > > FreeBSD and love it. I'm studying C and TCL/TK. (Iove Greg Blacks > > comments, vitriol and all) and spend all my extreneous computer > > time on my FreeeBSD machine. BUT... I also have a recording > > studio and run three MSWin machines. One sound 'card' is full > > duplex with 10 ins simultaneous with 8 outs. Another accepts > > S/PDIF from the aformentioned card. The third machine runs > > sampling software (SSPro ... if you sample you'll love it) and much > > as I would like to do it all in UNIX I'm not aware of any way I could > > (I'd love to hear I'm wrong -- I won't invest another fortune just yet). > > I know a lot of MS's success is due to their dominance and hence > > support, but still it is there. Anyway ... blah .. blah.. just thought I'd > > throw that bug in your ear and flame on Johnny, but really ... it's > > not all bad! > > Well, this fits in pretty well with what I wrote in this month's > Daemon News: http://www.daemonnews.org/199904/d-advocate.html. > Obviously Microsoft isn't *that* bad; I just keep being surprised > about what obvious bugs still exist in the world's most expensive > software. In your article you talk about HP commands. If you go to http://www.hp.com/cposupport/eschome.html and enter "laserjet commands", and search, you will find a number of articles on the various commands, which could be entered from a Unix program. They list all of the front panel commands and the corresponding escape sequences the set the options. -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html Hunting Archibald Stewart, b 1802 in Ballymena, Antrim Co., NIR http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/genealogy/archibald_stewart.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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