Re: Parallel port in GENERIC (Was FreeBSD 3.4 and printing)

2000-02-12 Thread Kazutaka YOKOTA
The GENERIC kernel ought to print from the parallel port out of the box. Networking with the parallel port bus (for zip dirves?) ought to take second place. GENERIC is the kernel used for installation. PLIP is one of the installation media. Therefore, GENERIC needs to configure the parallel

Re: Reading CVS messages.. how to tell if affects stable?

2000-02-12 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Fri, 11 Feb 2000 10:55:38 -0700, Warner Losh wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Francisco Reyes" writes: : I don't see how one can tell if a change will require a user to : do any kind of change for his/her Stable system to compile with : the latest sources. Have I missed something? Look

Re: Parallel port in GENERIC (Was FreeBSD 3.4 and printing)

2000-02-12 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Kazutaka YOKOTA wrote: It's fine that GENERIC is used for installation. But, GENERIC is supposed to be for "generic" use, in which more people are expected to use the parallel port for printing than for PLIP. I would suggest the parallel port should be configured with the "tty" mask in

Buildworld fails 20000212

2000-02-12 Thread ian j hart
The addition of a manpage for games/wargames seems to be broken for stable. Current is okay though. Here is the error message. make: don't know how to make wargames.6. Stop cvsup today feb 12th 2000 ~17:00 GMT ian j hart To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe

Re: Popper

2000-02-12 Thread Brad Knowles
At 7:57 AM -1000 2000/2/10, Clifton Royston wrote: What rev of qpopper do you use? The version we're using has serious performance problems on large mail spools, which seem to be inherent in its algorithm design. Try using one of the three supported mailbox hashing schemes that

Re: Popper

2000-02-12 Thread Carroll Kong
At 07:17 PM 2/12/00 +0100, Brad Knowles wrote: At 8:42 PM +0200 2000/2/10, Yiorgos Adamopoulos wrote: You can use UW-IMAPD which comes with an IMAP and a POP3 server (imapd and ipop3d). If you want better performance than that of using the standard unix mbox format, then you should

Re: Parallel port in GENERIC (Was FreeBSD 3.4 and printing)

2000-02-12 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
"Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote: I really don't like special-casing this for the installation. There's got to be a more technically correct solution for this and I urge you guys to pursue it. :) Jordan, might I remind you that this is a volunteer project, and nobody with the right skills and

Re: Popper

2000-02-12 Thread Tom
On Sat, 12 Feb 2000, Carroll Kong wrote: At 07:17 PM 2/12/00 +0100, Brad Knowles wrote: At 8:42 PM +0200 2000/2/10, Yiorgos Adamopoulos wrote: You can use UW-IMAPD which comes with an IMAP and a POP3 server (imapd and ipop3d). If you want better performance than that of using the

Re: Parallel port in GENERIC (Was FreeBSD 3.4 and printing)

2000-02-12 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
Jordan, might I remind you that this is a volunteer project, and nobody with the right skills and appropriate knowledge seems to be concerned enough to spend hours working out a fix for a problem that can be solved changing a "net" to a "tty" on the kernel configuration file? Might I then

Re: Parallel port in GENERIC (Was FreeBSD 3.4 and printing)

2000-02-12 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 12 Feb 2000, eirvine wrote: The GENERIC kernel ought to print from the parallel port out of the box. Networking with the parallel port bus (for zip dirves?) ought to take second place. What is needed is a *comment* in GENERIC telling users to change

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