On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 5:29 PM, Polytropon <free...@edvax.de> wrote: > BUT: CUPS seems to be hardcoded into many applications > today. They stopped working with the non-CUPS default > system tools. An example is Opera. Another one is Gimp > which works with system lp* tools, but has hardcoded > queries to "lpstat" (a CUPS program that doesn't exist > or "cannot connect to the server"). The upcoming question > here is: WHY???
(...) > CUPS also has program names that are derived from LPR's > competitor. The "lpstat" command is such an example, and > I think "lpadmin" also is. lpstat and lpadmin are standard SysV tools for printing. They existed LONG before CUPS: http://developers.sun.com/solaris/articles/print/sol_lp1.html Please note that there are two distinct toolsets for (traditional) UNIX printing: * lpr tools for BSD printing * lp tools for SysV printing Please don't call the BSD lpr toolset "lp tools", that's pretty confusing to us old-gen sysadmins. ;-) Regards, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
