From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 27 19:31:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bell.nelsonbay.com (bell.nelsonbay.com [203.12.6.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33F1014F8A for ; Tue, 27 Jul 1999 19:31:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jamesb@nelsonbay.com) Received: from [203.12.6.49] (dy18.nelsonbay.com [203.12.6.49]) by bell.nelsonbay.com (8.9.3/8.9.3/NB) with ESMTP id MAA82874; Wed, 28 Jul 1999 12:29:44 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from jamesb@nelsonbay.com) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Sender: jamesb@bell.dialix.com.au (Unverified) Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <199907280156.LAA97132@ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au> References: from james at "Jul 28, 1999 11:02:47 am" Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 12:23:45 +1000 To: Greg Lewis From: james Subject: Re: Printing a2ps + other config questions Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 . 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