From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jan 10 04:57:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id EAA28770 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 10 Jan 1998 04:57:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from frmug.org (frmug-gw.frmug.org [193.56.58.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id EAA28745 for ; Sat, 10 Jan 1998 04:57:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from roberto@keltia.freenix.fr) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by frmug.org (8.8.8/frmug-2.2/nospam) with UUCP id NAA01190; Sat, 10 Jan 1998 13:57:49 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from roberto@keltia.freenix.fr) Received: (from roberto@localhost) by keltia.freenix.fr (8.8.8/keltia-2.13/nospam) id NAA04003; Sat, 10 Jan 1998 13:13:50 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from roberto) Message-ID: <19980110131350.51749@keltia.freenix.fr> Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 13:13:50 +0100 From: Ollivier Robert To: papowell@astart.com Cc: FreeBSD-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, desmo@bandwidth.org Subject: Re: LPRng and FreeBSD References: <199801100304.TAA05862@astart4.astart.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88 In-Reply-To: <199801100304.TAA05862@astart4.astart.com>; from papowell@astart.com on Fri, Jan 09, 1998 at 07:04:07PM -0800 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT ctm#3963 AMD-K6 MMX @ 208 MHz Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk According to papowell@astart.com: > I am the developer of the LPRng print spooler software - a replacement > for the BSD LPR spooler. I would like to contact the BSD distribution > group and recommend that they replace their BSD LPR distribution with > LPRng, or offer it as an alternative. I'm not speaking for "core" but LPRng is already in the ports section of FreeBSD and has been for a while. # New ports collection makefile for: LPRng # Version required: 3.3.3 # Date created: 2 Apr 1997 # Whom: desmo@bandwidth.org As you see it is an old one nd it will have to be upgraded. I've Cc:'ed the maintainer (Hi desmo!). > In the very near future I will also be providing a simple 'setup' > script for printcap generation. Nice! -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 3.0-CURRENT #2: Thu Jan 8 00:49:00 CET 1998