Date: 15 Jun 1996 16:08:41 GMT From: peter@spinner.DIALix.COM (Peter Wemm) To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: editors Message-ID: <4pun69$3f5$2@haywire.DIALix.COM> References: <Pine.NEB.3.93.960605164717.422r-100000@Fieber-John.campusview.indiana.edu>
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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
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