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A look at Slackware 10.0A look at Slackware 10.0Posted Jun 29, 2004 6:43 UTC (Tue) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313)In reply to: A look at Slackware 10.0 by evgeny Parent article: A look at Slackware 10.0 iseing apsfilter, yes I would way back when (~10 years ago under SLS) when I needed to get a printer setup the printing howto suggested apsfilter and I tried it ant it 'just worked', since then I have dealt with a LOT of different printer types and with the exception of winprinters I have had no problems, I graduated from single user/single printer systems to larger setups and each step was a straightforward one (including connecting to the >10k printer/copier/fax machines in the office) I haven't put _that_ much time into trying to get CUPS working, but I have put in more time then my origional lpr setup took and when I got stuck with no clue as to what was wrong I just punted and went back to lpr
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A look at Slackware 10.0 Posted Jun 29, 2004 7:06 UTC (Tue) by evgeny (guest, #774) [Link] > way back when (~10 years ago under SLS) when I needed to get a printer setup the printing howto suggested apsfilter and I tried it ant it 'just worked',Well, our experiences are similar - I, too, started with SLS but before coming accross apsfilter I setup a couple of lpd filters by hand. And I do remember it took not one and not two hours of reading the printing howto and tinkering with the scripts/permissions/... until it worked as expected. And believe me, if you spend an hour with cups docs you'll be able to do much more than with lpr...
A look at Slackware 10.0 Posted Jul 8, 2004 21:38 UTC (Thu) by dunne (guest, #22552) [Link] > I haven't put _that_ much time into trying to get CUPS working,> but I have put in more time then my origional lpr setup took and > when I got stuck with no clue as to what was wrong I just punted > and went back to lpr Amen to that. Would it be that difficult for CUPS to provide
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