Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 16:57:17 -0500 From: Mike Meyer <mwm-dated-1051653439.6b26b4@mired.org> To: Gary Schenk <gwschenk@socal.rr.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newbie lpd printing Message-ID: <16040.23997.209531.774174@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <200304231855.17449.gwschenk@socal.rr.com> References: <200304102145.25225.gwschenk@socal.rr.com> <200304222140.12401.gwschenk@socal.rr.com> <16039.3305.100129.716727@guru.mired.org> <200304231855.17449.gwschenk@socal.rr.com>
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In <200304231855.17449.gwschenk@socal.rr.com>, Gary Schenk <gwschenk@socal.rr.com> typed: > On Wednesday 23 April 2003 03:00 pm, Mike Meyer wrote: > > In <200304222140.12401.gwschenk@socal.rr.com>, Gary Schenk > <gwschenk@socal.rr.com> typed: > > > On Friday 11 April 2003 09:21 am, Mike Meyer wrote: > > > > I suspect your script is broken for printing postscript files. The > > > > hpif script in the handbook doesn't handle those at all, so I assume > > > > you added that code. > > > No, I did not add anything. This is the script from the handbook. I > > > thought that it was to print postscript to a non-postscript printer. > > > It is essentisally the same script as in FreeBSD Unleashed. > > Where did you find that script? It's pretty badly flawed, and if it's > > in the handbook, that should be fixed. > I got it from the handbook, and a similar script is in 'FreeBSD Unleashed'. > cd / Can you be more precise than "the handbook". The one I found in the handbook didn't have anything in it for handling postscript. > > > As for magicfilter, I'm still working on it. I ran make install in > > > /usr/ports/print/magicfilter. However locate magicfilter shows > > > nothing, except for the above directory. There is nothing in the > > > /usr/local/bin directory indicating anything was installed. A google > > > search sent me to > > > http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/peripherals/printer-magicfilter.html > > > , which is for Debian Linux. It talks about running magicfilterconfig. > > > I assume there is nothing like this in FreeBSD? > > I don't know what's in the Debian docs are talking about. In > > particular, there's a rewrite of magicfilter from the ground up that > > bills itself as magicfilter 2.0 that they may be talking about. That's > > irrelevant to the magicfilter port. The magicfilter should install > > /usr/bin/magicfilter. It also installs printer filter scripts in > > /usr/local/libexec/magicfilter/. > I have no /usr/bin/magicfilter, but there are filter scripts in > /usr/local/libexec/magicfilter. Strange that "locate magicfilter" did not > show that. And I did run periodic and weekly. I goofed - that's /usr/local/bin/magicfilter. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information.
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