Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 14:25:59 +0100 From: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD port for redirecting printer Message-ID: <20130227132558.GA2079@tiny.Sisis.de> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1302271409230.72448@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1302261814330.27474@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20130226180645.GA1161@tiny.Sisis.de> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1302261929020.27796@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20130226183646.GA2351@tiny.Sisis.de> <20130227115646.GA1821@tiny.Sisis.de> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1302271409230.72448@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
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El día Wednesday, February 27, 2013 a las 02:10:18PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar escribió: > > Re/ CUPS and lpd(8), I only want to mention that in real world live I'm > > the technical lead of a software company and we have around 150 big > > libraries (of Universities etc.) which run our solutions on Linux or > > Solaris SPARC; they all use a precompiled CUPS and configure all their > > printers in the network with CUPS (browser admin); I will not imagine > > what would happen for us on service hotline, if they would all use > > something different and asking "why the hell the print is not coming > > out"; > > > it depends of someones imagination :) > > I would even be more scared in using point&click software on that scale. This shows that you have never used CUPS or just no idea about what you are talking; in addition to the web based admin interface, you have all files for edit with vim, like printers.conf or cups.conf, and ofc all log files upto debug level if you need; > > > $ lpr -Pfoo myfile.txt > > > > and all is done on the fly, assuming the printer "foo" understands > > Postscript. > same without cups with just doing right filters. And knowing what you did. please specify the exact filter command pipe to print an UTF-8 encoded text file to a Postscript printer; or just say, I've never done and do not know; thanks matthias -- Sent from my FreeBSD netbook Matthias Apitz | - No system with backdoors like Apple/Android E-mail: guru@unixarea.de | - Never being an iSlave WWW: http://www.unixarea.de/ | - No proprietary attachments, no HTML/RTF in E-mail phone: +49-170-4527211 | - Respect for open standards
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