From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Jun 26 9:51:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from zippy.osd.bsdi.com (zippy.cdrom.com [204.216.27.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D609837B9CE for ; Mon, 26 Jun 2000 09:51:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.osd.bsdi.com) Received: from localhost (jkh@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zippy.osd.bsdi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA02994; Mon, 26 Jun 2000 09:52:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.osd.bsdi.com) To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG, papowell@astart.com Subject: Re: was: Bringing LPRng into FreeBSD? In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 26 Jun 2000 11:46:23 +0200." <43200.962012783@axl.ops.uunet.co.za> Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 09:52:06 -0700 Message-ID: <2991.962038326@localhost> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Could someone just enumerate the advantages of importing LPRng? It It does everything that lpr and apsfilter do combined, right out of the box. That is to say that all we would need to do is add a printer setup dialog to sysinstall which lets you pick your printer type and then the rest would be largely a matter of installing a few external dependency packages, like ghostscript, and users could print everything from jpeg files to EPS without having to know much, if anything, about it. That is, at least to me, the biggest advantage. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message