Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 17:49:35 +0100 (CET) From: Soren Schmidt <sos@spider.deepcore.dk> To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: printing problems lpr/lpd misbehavior ? Message-ID: <200311231649.hANGnZoR043180@spider.deepcore.dk> In-Reply-To: <xzpbrr3rq7v.fsf@dwp.des.no>
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It seems Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > Soren Schmidt <sos@spider.deepcore.dk> writes: > > Disregard above, some crappy port has installed "cups" which apparently > > has its own "lpr" command, nice... > > Sorry, but *you* are the "crappy port". CUPS is intentionally split > into several ports so that the parts that other ports depend on > (cups-base) can be installed separately from the front-end (cups-lpr) > and the only port that depends on the front-end is the meta-port, > which itself has no dependents. "parse error" it sneaked in as a dependency of something else, I *newer* installed cups here (and its also now *gone*)... > You should consider this a golden opportunity to try out CUPS, which > is much easier to set up than the base system's lpd, and has far > better support for modern printers (including the ability to configure > printer options such as resolution, quality, duplex etc.). No thanks, lpd does the job quite nicely, with close to *no setup* so it cant be much easier :) -Søren
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