From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Jun 28 1:12:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from server.baldwin.cx (server.geekhouse.net [64.81.6.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B2DB37B5A9 for ; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 01:11:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from john@baldwin.cx) Received: from john.baldwin.cx (root@john.baldwin.cx [192.168.1.18]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA99210; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 01:09:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from john@baldwin.cx) Received: (from john@localhost) by john.baldwin.cx (8.9.3/8.9.3) id CAA00983; Tue, 27 Jun 2000 02:41:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from john) Message-Id: <200006270941.CAA00983@john.baldwin.cx> X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <2991.962038326@localhost> Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 02:41:27 -0700 (PDT) Organization: BSD, Inc. From: John Baldwin To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Subject: Re: was: Bringing LPRng into FreeBSD? Cc: papowell@astart.com, arch@FreeBSD.ORG, Sheldon Hearn Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- 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