Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 12:23:45 +1000 From: james <jamesb@nelsonbay.com> To: Greg Lewis <glewis@ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Printing a2ps + other config questions Message-ID: <v04020a03b3c41603d210@[203.12.6.49]> In-Reply-To: <199907280156.LAA97132@ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au> References: <v04020a03b3c3fee06229@[203.12.6.49]> from james at "Jul 28, 1999 11:02:47 am"
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Hi Greg, Thank you for your help with this. I have a couple of detail questions to clarify my ignorance here. >> Q1, Whats the command(s) to get an hp ps printer to work. The freeBSD >> system is the server to a few other systems. So far, the printer prints >> one line per page. > >I assume this is when you are trying to print a flat text file? If so, you >either need to convert to file to postscript (e.g. with a2ps or apsfilter >or by some homegrown thingy which tacks a postscript header on the top) or >convert the file with unix2dos or the like so that its a DOS/WIN style >text file. Two typical cases of printing: either from word97 on the lan, or from lp directly on Unix. What I dont know is what command do I type on the command line to get the printer that the lan knows about to print documents sent to it from the word97 program. >> Q2. Would like the other computers on the lan to be able to http through >> the free BSD's pppd. I see that the ppp command has an -alias command but >> the ppp command produces an "ERROR" when I get to the part to enter in the >> AT <phone number>. The pppd run by itself, does however connect and work ( >> except the other computers can not see past our freeBSD server ). > >You need to run a proxy server on the machine or you need to use something >like NAT. OK. Have seen squid running on the freeBSD machine when I first installed it last week, but now ( a few installs later )it does not run. So what do I do to make it run OK at startup. Is there a variable in rc.conf or should I just run it as a local... >> Q6. Is it possible to run informix IDS for linux on freeBSD ? Or put >> another way, what do I do to run a large linux application. > >Make sure you have linux emulation turned on and just run it. You _may_ >need to use the brandelf command if its not recognised as a linux binary >and you _may_ need to hack installation scripts which specifically expect >the system to report itself as Linux. This is Great news ! Just one little thing with that, how do I make sure Linux emulation is turned on and what do I run to run it ? Thanks again for your help, as I have lost some more hair with this, and I dont have much more left. See ya, James. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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