From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Jun 29 12:20:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA19969 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 12:20:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pau-amma.whistle.com (s205m64.whistle.com [207.76.205.64]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA19943 for ; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 12:20:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dhw@whistle.com) Received: (from dhw@localhost) by pau-amma.whistle.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id MAA24455 for newbies@freebsd.org; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 12:19:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dhw) Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 12:19:19 -0700 (PDT) From: David Wolfskill Message-Id: <199806291919.MAA24455@pau-amma.whistle.com> To: newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Reference: Unix in 20-30 years In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 07:56:22 -0700 (PDT) >From: Tim Gerchmez >...I just wish I had support for my sound card, >scanner, Syquest SparQ drive and special drivers for my inkjet printer so I can >print in color, etc, not just via a mindless text dump to the printer port. For the scanner, you might see if http://www.mostang.com/sane has anything you can use. For the printer... well, the usual technique in the UNIX environments I've used is to use PostScript devices... and that works just fine for color PostScript printers. Cheers, david -- David Wolfskill UNIX System Administrator dhw@whistle.com voice: (650) 577-7158 pager: (650) 371-4621 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message