On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 03:06:35AM -0800, Joseph Carter wrote:
> 
> I would still absolutely love to see a presentation on configuring CUPS
> the hard way.

Why?  Perhaps you should read the sources for lpadmin and some IPP
documentation.

> Most dists still use lpr or lprng, and CUPS is an all
> around better print system.

Well, again, read the sources and docs.  Both have their "optimal"
uses.  At an OpenBSD hackathon, lpr/lpd was used to spool mp3s ...
CUPS is not really that flexible. 

> This is especially useful since CUPS is
> available for Linux and other UNIX platforms, is the standard print system
> used by MacOS X, and CUPS can cooperate with Windows relatively easily
> once you actually configure it.
> 
> Like everything else, there many options for filtering whatever type of
> input you have and turning it into postscript..

Yes, CUPS does make things "simpler", and AFAIK, the is only IPP
implementation for *nix.

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