From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Jun 15 09:08:50 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA01802 for chat-outgoing; Sat, 15 Jun 1996 09:08:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from haywire.DIALix.COM (root@haywire.DIALix.COM [192.203.228.65]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA01797 for ; Sat, 15 Jun 1996 09:08:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from news@localhost) by haywire.DIALix.COM (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA04499 for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Sun, 16 Jun 1996 00:08:42 +0800 (WST) X-Authentication-Warning: haywire.DIALix.COM: news set sender to usenet-request@haywire.dialix.com using -f Received: from GATEWAY by haywire.DIALix.COM with netnews for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org (problems to: usenet@haywire.dialix.com) To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Date: 15 Jun 1996 16:08:41 GMT From: peter@spinner.DIALix.COM (Peter Wemm) Message-ID: <4pun69$3f5$2@haywire.DIALix.COM> Organization: DIALix Services, Perth, Australia. References: Subject: Re: editors Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In article <199606060553.XAA16291@xmission.xmission.com>, softweyr@xmission.com (Barnacle Wes) writes: > jfieber@indiana.edu said: >> > 2) Should be comprehensive, everything from adding users, setting up the >> > network (including Web server, NFS, etc), tape backups, printing services, >> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >> >> I was just thinking about this. This is a notable omission from >> the current install. If FreeBSD came with a very basic ascii to >> postscript filter, we could get basic text printing for most >> peaple with locally attached printers without too much fuss. > > It's in there. It's called apsfilter, and it's in either ports or > packages. All you really need to know is what language your printer > speaks. (Mine, and Epson Stylus, is ESC/P2, just like it says on the > printer.) apsfilter is really cool.. If you have a truely sick mind, you can hook it up to samba, and dump the gs output over the network to a windoze box.. And, if you really want to get perverse, you can print postscript stuff on windoze boxes by having the windoze machine print to a remote postscript "printer" (actually samba feeding into apsfilter), and it then gets shipped back after being converted to graphics.... The only catch is to find a good "laser printer" driver that matches ghostscript's input, and you need to find some quality type-1 fonts.. -Peter (who can't believe he's admitting to this in public.. :-) > -- > Wes Peters | Yes I am a pirate, two hundred years too late > Softweyr | The cannons don't thunder, there's nothing to plunder > Consulting | I'm an over forty victim of fate... > softweyr@xmission.com | Jimmy Buffett