From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 18 20:31:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp013.mail.yahoo.com (smtp013.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.173.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 84D6537B405 for ; Sat, 18 Aug 2001 20:31:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rmardo@yahoo.com) Received: from unknown (HELO rino) (202.69.161.150) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 19 Aug 2001 03:31:46 -0000 X-Apparently-From: Message-ID: <000701c12861$edd0afe0$96a145ca@rino> From: "Rino Mardo" To: References: <006001c12823$7a66ac00$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> Subject: Re: lpd(8): remote printing and input/output filters Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2001 11:01:04 +0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG for the info of those wondering what is a good editor then to use in order to capture those garbage i can only suggest "vi" which hasn't let me down for a decade. this maybe irrelevant but since the editor was the culprit i thought i put in my 2cents. Rino > See the following for a little help: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/corp-net-guide/index.html > > and keep in mind you have to be anal about the config file syntax. I mean > REALLY anal. Recently, one of the posters on the forum here had a problem > like this and he finally discovered that the text editor that he was using was > ignoring trailing garbage that was appended to the /etc/printcap file. He > only could tell this by catting the file to stdout - otherwise the garbage > characters were invisible. Another common problem is appending a space > character AFTER the trailing \ on a line in the printcap. Also, spaces at the > beginning of a capability line seem > to be a bad thing too. > > > Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com > Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide > Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com > _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message