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Date:      Wed, 28 Jun 2000 21:04:15 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net>
To:        Will Andrews <andrews@technologist.com>
Cc:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.osd.bsdi.com>, papowell@astart.com, arch@FreeBSD.ORG, Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
Subject:   Re: was: Bringing LPRng into FreeBSD?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006282101000.590-100000@picnic.mat.net>
In-Reply-To: <20000628134614.I8602@argon.gryphonsoft.com>

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On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Will Andrews wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 02:41:27AM -0700, John Baldwin wrote:
> > Erm, then why not do this with apsfilter?
> 
> Because apsfilter also brings in far more useless junk that LPRng
> does.  26,000 lines over our current lpr == LPRng.  apsfilter == LPRng +
> lots and lots and lots of other crap.

I'm curious about that.  How does LPRng get gif to postscript conversion
without ghostscript (one of the biggest pieces of "crap" you refer
to).  How does it get ascii (or any other format) to postscript?

Does it do all that internally, or does it include a lot of "crap" too?


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Chuck Robey            | Interests include C & Java programming, FreeBSD,
chuckr@picnic.mat.net  | electronics, communications, and signal processing.

New Year's Resolution:  I will not sphroxify gullible people into looking up
fictitious words in the dictionary.
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