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Date:      Tue, 18 Apr 2000 03:35:31 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Heiko Recktenwald <uzs106@ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de>
To:        Jukka Simila <juksi@iname.com>
Cc:        freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: newbies
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.10004180331570.356-100000@moritz.alleswirdgelber>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.000418022113.juksi@iname.com>

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> > Printing appears to be another of the unbelievable weirdnesses endemic to
> > the
> > unixes ..... I've always believed that ghostscript was the most complicated
> > way
> > possible the geeks could devise of doing the job. 

> I agree, I made my printer work as a line printer, and it printed PostScript as
> well (In fact I like ghostscript) but I neverever made it to print graphics,
> like gifs and such, not even mentioning in color.

Gifs etc want to be printed via xv etc. As postscript files. You cannot lp
bla.gif. 



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