Sorry for misunderstanding the original post. I thought that he was looking for a tool that would find the printer and could tell what kind it was. :/
Yeah, magicfilterconfig does a nice job of it if you are using the standard lpr. It is a little quirky if you are using LPRng. On 07-Dec-97 Damir J. Naden wrote: > Hi Pere Camps; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: >> >> Is there any tool anywhere where I can tell what printer do I have >> and where is it and then the program takes care of everything, or do I >> have to read everything there's to know about printcaps and magicfilters? >> > > Did you try running magicfilterconfig (as a root), after installing > magicfilter package? This scritp will ask you about the printer(s) that > you have and make a 'custom' /etc/printcap for you. it worked for me... > Oh, yeah...remove your existing /etc/printcap prior to running the > above script (for safety sake I used to move mine to /etc/printcap.old > so I could retrieve it later, but I had working printcap prior to > magicfilter....) > > HTH > damir > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
