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Date:      Thu, 3 Jan 2002 11:17:09 -0500
From:      Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
To:        chip <chip@wiegand.org>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cups compared to lp, or does it?
Message-ID:  <p05101003b85a31cd1f84@[128.113.24.47]>
In-Reply-To: <200112312106978.SM02384@there>
References:  <200112312106978.SM02384@there>

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At 9:07 PM -0800 12/31/01, chip wrote:
>I am wondering just what is cups? I see no man page for it, I checked
>the  freebsd.org web site and find the only info appears to be the
>description for  the port. Is there another source for info about cups?

The ports collection is a very very useful collection of programs which
are *not* part of FreeBSD, but which are setup to compile on freebsd.
While FreeBSD would not have any man page for CUPS, I assume that if
you installed that CUPS port then it would also install documentation
(including man pages) for CUPS.  I'm sure you could build the port
without installing it, and then find the documentation in the working
directories.

Compared to most other ports, CUPS is a fairly substantial project in
it's own right, and there is a web site devoted to it.  If you don't
want to rummage around in the port, you could probably get a lot of
information by starting at:
     http://www.cups.org/

There is also at least one book available on CUPS.

>Is it something I  might want to use instead of the default printer
>program? (I have two printers, hp inkjet 680C and epson inkjet
>colorstylus 400.)

I have not used CUPS, so I can't say for sure.  However, it might be
that all you want to do is to install the 'apsfilter' port, and let
that handle translation of print jobs to the specific printers that
you have.

CUPS vs lpr vs lp vs LPRng is a choice between the ways to *spool*
jobs for a printer (or a collection of printers).  You may very well
want to use CUPS for some of the features it provides, but your
question sounds more like you just want to know how to translate
various types of print jobs so they print correctly on your printers.

-- 
Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu

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