Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2001 11:01:04 +0800 From: "Rino Mardo" <rmardo@yahoo.com> To: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: lpd(8): remote printing and input/output filters Message-ID: <000701c12861$edd0afe0$96a145ca@rino> References: <006001c12823$7a66ac00$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>
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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
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