On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 05:42:44PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > Soren Schmidt <sos_at_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. > > 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.). q: What makes cups so special that one should try it out ? What can it do better than apsfilter which IMHO isn't as bloated as cups and has better features... reply-to set ... Andreas /// -- Andreas Klemm - Powered by FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT Need a magic printfilter today ? -> http://www.apsfilter.org/Received on Sun Nov 23 2003 - 10:20:34 UTC
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