I'm now a convert to CUPS (was Re: Mixing LPRng and CUPS?)

[Kevin O'Gorman]

On 5 Sep 2002, Aaron Grewell wrote:

> Excellent.  I had the fun of installing CUPS 1.1.15 the other day, and
> it was a real pain.  They removed some stuff from CUPS and stuck it into
> their own version of GhostScript, so now instead of just making CUPS
> work you have to make their GhostScript work as well.  Ick.  Once I got
> it working, however, it is very cool.  Out of curiosity, what field did
> you get your PhD in?

Computer science.  Which makes it much worse when my wife notices
me having trouble on the computer.  Which I always do because I'm always
trying new stuff.  :o)

++ kevin

> 
> On Wed, 2002-09-04 at 18:35, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> > 
> > Well, I went back to my systems this morning after writing
> > the email below, and began by reading the documentation.  After
> > I thought I knew enough to understand at least the next step,
> > I fired up the client machine, and much to my astonishment,
> > I had printers visible and available all over the place.
> > Perhaps CUPS on the client had needed a restart or something.
> > I had to fool with only a couple of things to make the printing
> > wonderful, it was raw as it stood, needed to be told the printer
> > model and HPLJ 4M Postscript works just fine for me so far.
> > 
> > Happy days.  The improvement over LPRng is visible and
> > I'm suddenly a convert.  The web administration thing needs
> > work because it seems to leave me in dead-ends sometimes,
> > but it's completely useable.
> > 
> > ++ kevin
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
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> > On Wed, 4 Sep 2002, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> > 
> > > I tried the web thingy, and got basically the same problems as 
> > > described for the Control Center, presumably because the Control
> > > Center is only fronting for the true culprit.
> > > 
> > > Thanks for the hint about directing the listener.  I'll do that.
> > > The odd thing is, as near as I can tell, nobody's listening on 631
> > > as things stand.  That may be the real problem.  I'll start with the
> > > obvious things: looking at the daemon.  I had thought port 515
> > > was the real deal because of the line from a file in /etc/inet.d:
> > >    printer stream  tcp     nowait lp       /usr/lib/cups/daemon/cups-lpd 
> > >      cups-lpd -o document-format=application/octet-stream
> > > but that turns out to be cups-lpd, which is presumably what I will
> > > be using for my LPRng clients.
> > > 
> > > Someone sent me a link to full CUPS documentation.  I'm going to
> > > devote as much of today as it takes to making this work.  I'll give
> > > the web admin thingy another try too.
> > > 
> > > This sort of thing sure makes me respect the effort that goes into
> > > an easy-to-use interface, whenever I actually see one.
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > 
> > > ++ kevin
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
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