From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 2 13:13:35 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEC06106566C for ; Fri, 2 Mar 2012 13:13:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from siefke_listen@web.de) Received: from fmmailgate07.web.de (fmmailgate07.web.de [217.72.192.248]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E6998FC1F for ; Fri, 2 Mar 2012 13:13:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from moweb002.kundenserver.de (moweb002.kundenserver.de [172.19.20.108]) by fmmailgate07.web.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F890D3156C for ; Fri, 2 Mar 2012 14:13:17 +0100 (CET) Received: from silviosiefke.silviosiefke.de ([87.123.184.250]) by smtp.web.de (mrweb001) with ESMTPA (Nemesis) id 0Mg7Zl-1Rim5I1stp-00Nbcp; Fri, 02 Mar 2012 14:13:17 +0100 Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2012 14:13:13 +0100 From: "siefke_listen@web.de" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20120302141313.4d02f3eb.siefke_listen@web.de> In-Reply-To: <4F50BFB5.6040003@herveybayaustralia.com.au> References: <20120302122543.0dc89556.siefke_listen@web.de> <20120302065220.2b4fa8f9@scorpio> <20120302131554.25016adc.siefke_listen@web.de> <4F50BFB5.6040003@herveybayaustralia.com.au> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.1.3 (GTK+ 2.10.14; i686-pc-mingw32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:Q0U2Ko90Y4iL9UHhmtTSWj6pz4FQ68XlzxDiLFr0pkW hdlWWgx/h1uC+y12SBCVzG06C5yTc3cfV+3TR1PsItkP8M6piM 8n+3kvvPr2y0Wev1m+BDyKApzJG26CE644QX/djWp13kO1eFqT lhtbZQuRXu5R+0nwZuuD8YFryjDRkaC7zM/rkB4MxOtqHTmk6W TVJewk043cT6Yy1UEBfMw== Subject: Re: Brother Printer X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2012 13:13:36 -0000 Hello, On Fri, 02 Mar 2012 22:40:21 +1000 Da Rock wrote: > Are you sure its just a script? Any clue as to what shell it is using? > Bash? I do believe there should be some binaries there somewhere as well. Yes im sure. I have a ppd File, they linked to /usr/local/libexec/brlpdwrapperMFC730 and thats a shell scipt. Bash, its start with #! /bin/sh. > Do you know what printer language it is using? This was mostly obscured > on the net, but I presume GDI. Yes the printer use GDI. I have try other Brother Printer Driver, but thats most end in empty letter print without end. > You'll be lucky if you get an answer, but it will invariably be "no. > Piss off, its not worth our time". That makes me really angry. I understand it even if software companies keep your code closed, every programmer has to eat too. But why not give hardware manufacturers enough information so that other programmers can assemble a capable driver, is beyond my understanding. > Its always hard to give up on a piece of hardware that _should_ work. > Depends how hard you want to work to get it to operate: you can probably > get one of those old pdp systems they've mentioned here recently to run > FreeBSD, but it will take a lot of work :) But you do have a lot of help > here... I know FreeBSD now for 4 years. I started on my servers, then I am also change the Ubuntu Desktop (shame) to Freebsd. Only now I have installed Gentoo, because FreeBSD will not run some programms. Gentoo comes very close to Freebsd. The community from FreeBSD is really the best i see. The community of Freebsd share the knowledge, without making to smart. PS. When u want see the scripts i can send it. Its really all shell scripts. Regards Silvio