Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 18:17:55 +0200 From: "C. P. Ghost" <cpghost@cordula.ws> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: Bill Tillman <btillman99@yahoo.com>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS Message-ID: <CADGWnjXFJnYFaUC15dc6t0knB98PTxZUnR5MKkfGGb2n=t1mcA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20111027172944.75a96733.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <15996.1319704110@tristatelogic.com> <1319712142.89939.YahooMailNeo@web36507.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20111027172944.75a96733.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 5:29 PM, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote: > BUT: CUPS seems to be hardcoded into many applications > today. They stopped working with the non-CUPS default > system tools. An example is Opera. Another one is Gimp > which works with system lp* tools, but has hardcoded > queries to "lpstat" (a CUPS program that doesn't exist > or "cannot connect to the server"). The upcoming question > here is: WHY??? (...) > CUPS also has program names that are derived from LPR's > competitor. The "lpstat" command is such an example, and > I think "lpadmin" also is. lpstat and lpadmin are standard SysV tools for printing. They existed LONG before CUPS: http://developers.sun.com/solaris/articles/print/sol_lp1.html Please note that there are two distinct toolsets for (traditional) UNIX printing: * lpr tools for BSD printing * lp tools for SysV printing Please don't call the BSD lpr toolset "lp tools", that's pretty confusing to us old-gen sysadmins. ;-) Regards, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/
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