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Date:      Sat, 05 Aug 2006 10:33:47 -0700
From:      Micah <micahjon@ywave.com>
To:        apatewna@yahoo.gr
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Cups USB workaround was working but now fails
Message-ID:  <44D4D67B.8010804@ywave.com>
In-Reply-To: <44D4D356.8070201@yahoo.gr>
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Apatewna wrote:
> O/H Ian Moore έγραψε:
> 
>> It seems that cups now won't recognise the file: setting, yet 
>> previously it did. I checked back through my logs to see if a newer 
>> cups port had come out & I'd inadvertently upgraded to it, but it 
>> seems that's not the case - it's still 1.2.0
>> Using the usb: URI always gives the same result - the job starts 
>> printing but stops after about 12% and won't go any further.
>>
>> Any ideas as to why my cups no longer accepts the file: URI?
>> I'm running FreeBSD 5.11-Release-p2 and my printer is an Epson Stylus 
>> C61 on a USB port.
>>
>> Cheers,
> 
> I just checked http://www.cups.org/articles.php?L397 and CUPS is at 
> 1.2.2 already.
> I also remember a major problem with 1.2.0. See these threads :
> 
> http://forums.pcbsd.org/viewtopic.php?t=4173&highlight=cups
> http://www.bsdforums.org/forums/showthread.php?t=42391
> 
> I remember that the severity of the bug was so great that the 1.2.1 
> update was in the ports in a week or so.
> I'm not in front of a BSD machine to be sure, but have you upgraded your 
> ports lately? Cups 1.2.1 should at least be there.

1.2.0 is what's in the ports tree. See 
http://www.freshports.org/print/cups-base/

- Micah



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