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From: Paul Chakravarti <paulc@jagunet.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: A couple of questions about FreeBSD
Date: Sun, 03 Mar 1996 16:22:42 -0500
Organization: jaguNET Access Services
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Paul Chakravarti wrote:
>
> John J. Rushford wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> < SNIP >
> >
> > 1) I've got a postscript laser printer that I'd like to get working.
> > I don't know how to build the proper printcap entry for it. I also
> > believe that I need something like ghostscript which I've installed
> > from the CD. Do I need ghostscript? Has anyone got a sample printcap
> > and filter that I could use?
> >
>
> You could try apsfilter - 'smart' filter which will setup printcap automatically - it
> supports HP and PS printers - works very well with my HP Deskjet 855C and I would
> recommend - not tried with a PS printer - appears on most Linux distributions
> (aps-48.tgz) but not the 2.1 CD (?) - see
>
> http://www.phys.ufl.edu/docs/goodies/unix/sys_admin/apsfilter.html
>
> for some info/pointers (good site for finding useful things)
>
Sorry I forgot to mention that you have to patch rewindstdin.c to include unistd.h
to get rewindstdin to work - hardly worth a patch so here is the whole file -
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#include <unistd.h>
main()
{
return lseek(0,0L,0) < 0;
}
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