Printing system with CUPS

Chuck Mead csm at MoonGroup.com
Wed Mar 12 23:10:56 CET 2003


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On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Joe Klemmer posted the following:

JK>On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Benedikt Meurer wrote:
JK>
JK>> I'd like to drop support for any other printing system than CUPS in
JK>> xfprint. That would make life easier a lot (for example most plattforms
JK>> lack a cgetnext(3) library routine, which would mean, I'd have to parse
JK>> the printcap file by hand with BSD lpr or lprng support).
JK>>
JK>> Any opinions?
JK>
JK>	I strongly "Klemmer" this.  I don't use CUPS for a number of
JK>reasons (none technical).  Support is needed for lpr and LPng.

In the next version of at least one major distro cups is the
default/standard!

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