Date: Fri, 7 Apr 1995 15:27:56 -0400 (EDT) From: -Vince- <vince@kbrown.oldcampus.yale.edu> To: Andreas Klemm <andreas@knobel.gun.de> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com>, Ollivier Robert <roberto@blaise.ibp.fr>, "FreeBSD Hackers' list" <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: /etc/printcap for Deskjet 500 and gs Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.91.950407152616.2623c-100000@kbrown.oldcampus.yale.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.91.950407204544.3909B-100000@knobel>
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On Fri, 7 Apr 1995, Andreas Klemm wrote: > On Sun, 2 Apr 1995, -Vince- wrote: > > > On Sat, 1 Apr 1995, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > > > > Here is my /etc/printcap file > > > > ... > > > > > > Does anyone "own" printing under FreeBSD? I've often felt there to be > > > a great, sucking vacuum in the printing side of things and it really > > > would be NIFTY if somebody who actually OWNED A PRINTER (this does not > > > include me) and was kind of DETAIL MINDED actually got mad and angry > > > enough about the poor printer support and DID SOMETHING ABOUT IT. > > > > > > Any takers? :-) > > > > > > Jordan > > > > > > > Well, I actually OWN A PRINTER or to be exact, one HP DeskJet > > 560C, DeskJet Portable 310 and a DeskJet 500 and recently got printing of > > everything except for dvi files under apsfilter 4.9 delta which I am > > trying out... Time to add apsfilter to the ports collection? :-) > > Nice to hear, that you are satisfied with it ... Yeah, it works > with FreeBSD 2.X after I received a fix for rewindstdin. > Well, 99% satisfied now :-) > So there should be no problem to add it to the ports list. > > Andreas /// > Well, except for the fact that printing dvi's doesn't work in 4.9 while it did in 4.8.1.. Cheers, Vince -*vince@kbrown.oldcampus.yale.edu*- UCLA Physics/Electrical Engineering
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