On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 05:42:44PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> Soren Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Disregard above, some crappy port has installed "cups" which apparently
> > has its own "lpr" command, nice...
>
> Sorry, but *you* are the "crappy port". CUPS is intentionally split
> into several ports so that the parts that other ports depend on
> (cups-base) can be installed separately from the front-end (cups-lpr)
> and the only port that depends on the front-end is the meta-port,
> which itself has no dependents.
>
> You should consider this a golden opportunity to try out CUPS, which
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^.....
> is much easier to set up than the base system's lpd, and has far
> better support for modern printers (including the ability to configure
> printer options such as resolution, quality, duplex etc.).
q: What makes cups so special that one should try it out ?
What can it do better than apsfilter which IMHO isn't as bloated
as cups and has better features...
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Andreas ///
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