From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 23 12:15:54 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA97316A4CE; Sun, 23 Nov 2003 12:15:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.des.no (flood.des.no [217.116.83.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 746B243FCB; Sun, 23 Nov 2003 12:15:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: by smtp.des.no (Pony Express, from userid 666) id 2DD7F5309; Sun, 23 Nov 2003 21:15:51 +0100 (CET) Received: from dwp.des.no (des.no [80.203.228.37]) by smtp.des.no (Pony Express) with ESMTP id 2AFA35308; Sun, 23 Nov 2003 21:15:44 +0100 (CET) Received: by dwp.des.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id CBCCE33C86; Sun, 23 Nov 2003 21:15:43 +0100 (CET) To: chat@freebsd.org References: <200311231604.hANG4iCV042391@spider.deepcore.dk> <20031123191900.GA2176@titan.klemm.apsfilter.org> From: des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 21:15:43 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20031123191900.GA2176@titan.klemm.apsfilter.org> (Andreas Klemm's message of "Sun, 23 Nov 2003 20:19:00 +0100") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.090024 (Oort Gnus v0.24) Emacs/21.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60 (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) on flood.des.no X-Spam-Level: ss X-Spam-Status: No, hits=2.5 required=5.0 tests=RCVD_IN_DYNABLOCK autolearn=no version=2.60 cc: Soren Schmidt cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: printing problems lpr/lpd misbehavior ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 20:15:54 -0000 Andreas Klemm writes: > q: What makes cups so special that one should try it out ? > What can it do better than apsfilter which IMHO isn't as bloated > as cups and has better features... apsfilter is in my experience a lot more difficult and confusing to configure, and I don't think I ever figured out how to do things like switch duplex on / off etc. CUPS has a web-based configuration interface which is very simple to use. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no