Date: Sun, 2 Apr 1995 11:51:44 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: /etc/printcap for Deskjet 500 and gs Message-ID: <199504020951.LAA01097@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199504020739.XAA15506@estienne.cs.berkeley.edu> from "Justin T. Gibbs" at Apr 1, 95 11:39:09 pm
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
As Justin T. Gibbs wrote: > > >Does anyone "own" printing under FreeBSD? I've often felt there to be > >a great, sucking vacuum in the printing side of things and it really > >would be NIFTY if somebody who actually OWNED A PRINTER (this does not > >include me) and was kind of DETAIL MINDED actually got mad and angry > >enough about the poor printer support and DID SOMETHING ABOUT IT. Well, i actually own a printer, yes. Though it's an old & loud 180 dpi Epson. > What is needed is a simple front end that asks for a few things that > are common to all printers (name, remote?, spool directory, error-log > file?, etc), asks for the printer type, fetchs the printcap for this > model printer that has been submitted and munges it based on the answers > given. Someon who knows perl (I don't) should be able to do this pretty > easily. ...perhaps also a reference to apsfilter? (Oooh! We don't even have a port for it! Andreas, are you also listening here?) I do own a printer, and i do know perl, but i do not have time. :-( I can, however, volunteer to beta-test. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199504020951.LAA01097>