Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 02:41:27 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.osd.bsdi.com> Cc: papowell@astart.com, arch@FreeBSD.ORG, Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> Subject: Re: was: Bringing LPRng into FreeBSD? Message-ID: <200006270941.CAA00983@john.baldwin.cx> In-Reply-To: <2991.962038326@localhost>
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On 26-Jun-00 Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: >> Could someone just enumerate the advantages of importing LPRng? It > > It does everything that lpr and apsfilter do combined, right out of > the box. That is to say that all we would need to do is add a printer > setup dialog to sysinstall which lets you pick your printer type and > then the rest would be largely a matter of installing a few external > dependency packages, like ghostscript, and users could print > everything from jpeg files to EPS without having to know much, if > anything, about it. Erm, then why not do this with apsfilter? > That is, at least to me, the biggest advantage. > > - Jordan -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- 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-arch" in the body of the message
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