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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>
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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

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