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Date:      Tue, 22 Jan 2002 00:42:17 -0500
From:      Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
To:        Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net>, bsd <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: lpstat connection refused
Message-ID:  <p05101201b872aba3bc7d@[128.113.24.47]>
In-Reply-To: <20020122053033.GA2140@raggedclown.net>
References:  <20020120172600.20898d27.erichey2@attbi.com> <p05101202b8727e6521ee@[128.113.24.47]> <20020122053033.GA2140@raggedclown.net>

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At 6:30 AM +0100 1/22/02, Cliff Sarginson wrote:
>I have a suspicion, that KDE may sneak CUPs in while you are not
>looking. I installed a printer on a system this last evening with
>the latest KDE, and tried out the print manager thing in KDE.
>I have *not* conciously installed CUPS, but on the test page I printed
>from KDE stands in big letters at the bottom
>
>"Printed Using CUPS V1.1.x".
>
>And yes "lpstat" is there.
>However the print system I am using ex-KDE is the good old BSD one.
>
>Life is full of surprises.

If you have an up-to-date ports tree, the CUPS port was just split
in two.  KDE now uses the "safe" half, and now it shouldn't cause
any confusion with the standard BSD lpr-setup.  Before the split,
installing KDE could confuse some printing issues.

-- 
Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu

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