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From: John Baldwin <jhb@bsdi.com>
To: Robert Mcmorrow <rmcmorrow@earthlink.net>
Subject: RE: Your latest release, #4.0..
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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?

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