From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 19 22:07:10 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 737DC106568E for ; Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:07:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from aristotle.thought.org (ns1.thought.org [209.180.213.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 172DA8FC55 for ; Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:07:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from thought.org (tao.thought.org [10.47.0.250]) (authenticated bits=0) by aristotle.thought.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id n7JM6uW9029866; Wed, 19 Aug 2009 15:06:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: by thought.org (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1002 kline@thought.org; Wed, 19 Aug 2009 15:07:01 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 15:07:00 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Polytropon Message-ID: <20090819220700.GA92618@thought.org> References: <20090819063810.GA15231@thought.org> <20090819072307.a5f2a541.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <20090819180519.GA86402@thought.org> <20090819202834.50101046.freebsd@edvax.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090819202834.50101046.freebsd@edvax.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 23 years of service to the Unix community. X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=3.6 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on aristotle.thought.org Cc: Bill Moran , FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: duplex printing with OOo. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:07:10 -0000 On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 08:28:34PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > On Wed, 19 Aug 2009 11:05:19 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > > > Well, after umch mucking around, the Brother 5250DN works with > > OO and prints in Duplex only if I turn the dialog to OFF where is > > say > > > > Duplex __ [arrows] > > Do I understand this correctly? Duplex works in OO when duplex > is set to OFF = no duplex? Oh joy of modern software! that should have been:: Duplex _OFF_ [arrows] > > This reminds me to a POS program with a very creative > error handling, it went like this: > > switch error > case 1: "printer not connected"; > case 2: "scanner not connected"; > case 4: "keyboard not connected"; > case 8: "some other error"; > ... > default: "file not found"; (without mentioning which file) LMOA! man, that's rich... sounds like some seriously lazy hacking to me... . > > Maybe OO should add something like "In order to activate a > feature, deactivate it". :-) > i'm actually starting a ~/.helpOOo file with tricks and tips about the program, mostly swriter. there are some pretty sharp folks over on oooforum.org. luckily:_) > > > > Now that that's resolved, I can change the printer web page > > config back to Simplex and everything will be fine. The King > > will be in his heaven; God will be in his Counting_House, &c. > > I hope both are well, "up and running". :-) > > By the way, long time that I saw someone write "&c.". > not sure if easier to type "etc." or "&c", given the shift-7 == '&' ... but it's different. gary > > -- > Polytropon > Magdeburg, Germany > Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 > Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 5.67a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php