From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Apr 2 15:31:18 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id PAA14684 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 2 Apr 1995 15:31:18 -0700 Received: from kbrown.oldcampus.yale.edu (root@kbrown.oldcampus.yale.edu [130.132.128.124]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id PAA14678 for ; Sun, 2 Apr 1995 15:31:12 -0700 Date: Sun, 2 Apr 1995 18:30:27 -0400 (EDT) From: -Vince- To: Gary Palmer cc: Tom Samplonius , "Paul F. Werkowski" , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: /etc/printcap for Deskjet 500 and gs In-Reply-To: <3490.796860780@palmer.demon.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 2 Apr 1995, Gary Palmer wrote: > In message , Tom Samplonius writes: > > Could all of these things put into a separate "printing" distribution > >and included with 2.1? > > Most of them (apart from apsfilter) are in the ports/print directory. > I think a solution is being worked on so that if you install 2.1 it will > give you the option of installing these also from a nice menuing system. > > Gary > That would be neat.... netpbm doesn't have like the giftoppm and the other ppm stuff that pbmplus has... Also, the dvips and the TeX in the FreeBSD ports collection is broken in that dvips can't create fonts while running in the background... Cheers, Vince vince@kbrown.oldcampus.yale.edu UCLA Physics/Electrical Engineering