On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 01:41:27AM -0800, nate wrote: | David Goodenough said: | | > Would it not make sense for the install process for cups ask | > whether to use printcat rather than printcap.cups. This seems | > to cause lots of new users problems, and I can not think of | > any particular reason not to use printcap. Surely this should | > actually be the default? | | it would make sense to me yes, I can't think of a reason not to | do it,
Perhaps it isn't the default so your old/existing printcap (set up for lpd or something that actually uses it) isn't clobbered. I agree that a debconf option would be sensible. | I haven't seen any programs that are aware of the file /etc/printcap.cups Samba, with "printing = cups", uses whatever file is specified in CUPS' config. (However, if you also set "printcap name = cups" it will use cups itself and ignore any printcap file) | others seem to query /etc/printcap before printing. That is why cups has the option for generating a dummy printcap. -D -- A)bort, R)etry, B)ang it with a large hammer http://dman.ddts.net/~dman/
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