Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2000 23:46:52 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@bsdi.com> To: Robert Mcmorrow <rmcmorrow@earthlink.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Your latest release, #4.0.. Message-ID: <200007020646.XAA33792@john.baldwin.cx> In-Reply-To: <41200065309244710@earthlink.net>
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On 30-Jun-00 Robert Mcmorrow wrote: > > > > --- Robert Mcmorrow > --- rmcmorrow@earthlink.net > --- EarthLink: It's your Internet. > Dear FreeBSD,as it were, > > I've seen the "New Box" in the store, holding release Version 4--Superb > graphics...er, at the bottom on the back, it says "Postscript Software > Included.."..a look at the latest version of the handbook shows we'd still > have to recompile the kernel and then scuff a printer-driver to get it > to print on demand. For an OS like FreeBSD--which, as a newbie, I've tried > and just from its feel alone (fast!),been very impressed by--why not,er, > do up a BSD version of Red Hat Linux's Printtool? Or a printer-probe > thingie? I say this because BSD's boot message,once I have it up and > running, notices the make and model of my printer..but there's no connect- > the-dots on printer activation..I still have to work on that printer- > driver(I've got notes culled from the Handbook to pore over yet). Some > of the tests suggested in the Handbook activate the printer,too, just > like it says they will..so near, and yet a bit far..I'm not so hot at > 'scuffing'(my word)code yet,since I'm still learning The Commands (on > Linux..sorry). Possibly you're planning to import a setup program of > your choice;heaven knows the news of a Major Printer Maker saying it'll > put out Linux Printers makes me just say--God, it's open source, look > at the books, is it that hard to get a few Linux Driver floppies going?? > But I hope BSD simply automates printer setup: Experienced unix-family > folk won't need it, and people like me will stop computer users on the > street to say(waving a BSD carton or CD)"Have I got an OS hot-rod for > you!!" > PS I support recycling,natch;paper isn't renewable forever. > Very Truly Yours--Robert McMorrow,a semi-newbie Have you tried apsfilter from the Ports collection? -- John Baldwin <jhb@bsdi.com> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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