From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Apr 2 05:41:45 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id FAA02901 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 2 Apr 1995 05:41:45 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id FAA02895 for ; Sun, 2 Apr 1995 05:41:41 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA28302; Sun, 2 Apr 1995 14:39:55 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.9/8.6.9-s1) with UUCP id OAA08364 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sun, 2 Apr 1995 14:39:55 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id LAA01097 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sun, 2 Apr 1995 11:51:47 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199504020951.LAA01097@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: /etc/printcap for Deskjet 500 and gs To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Sun, 2 Apr 1995 11:51:44 +0200 (MET DST) In-Reply-To: <199504020739.XAA15506@estienne.cs.berkeley.edu> from "Justin T. Gibbs" at Apr 1, 95 11:39:09 pm Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 1224 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)