From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 27 18:58:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au (Ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.44.147]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C363214D85 for ; Tue, 27 Jul 1999 18:58:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from glewis@ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au) Received: (from glewis@localhost) by ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA97132; Wed, 28 Jul 1999 11:26:40 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from glewis) From: Greg Lewis Message-Id: <199907280156.LAA97132@ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Printing a2ps + other config questions In-Reply-To: from james at "Jul 28, 1999 11:02:47 am" To: james Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 11:26:40 +0930 (CST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL56 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Q1, Whats the command(s) to get an hp ps printer to work. The freeBSD > system is the server to a few other systems. So far, the printer prints > one line per page. I assume this is when you are trying to print a flat text file? If so, you either need to convert to file to postscript (e.g. with a2ps or apsfilter or by some homegrown thingy which tacks a postscript header on the top) or convert the file with unix2dos or the like so that its a DOS/WIN style text file. > Q2. Would like the other computers on the lan to be able to http through > the free BSD's pppd. I see that the ppp command has an -alias command but > the ppp command produces an "ERROR" when I get to the part to enter in the > AT . The pppd run by itself, does however connect and work ( > except the other computers can not see past our freeBSD server ). You need to run a proxy server on the machine or you need to use something like NAT. > Q6. Is it possible to run informix IDS for linux on freeBSD ? Or put > another way, what do I do to run a large linux application. Make sure you have linux emulation turned on and just run it. You _may_ need to use the brandelf command if its not recognised as a linux binary and you _may_ need to hack installation scripts which specifically expect the system to report itself as Linux. -- Greg Lewis glewis@trc.adelaide.edu.au Computing Officer +61 8 8303 5083 Teletraffic Research Centre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message