Hello, Beginning back in Oct 2002, I've sent the same email 3 times directly to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' with some corrections to the LPRng 'Printing Cookbook' (etc). I've never received any reply and after periodic checking, I continually see that none of my changes have been addressed/fixed.
Despite the fact that I no longer actively use LPRng, I saw this mailing list and recently joined in the hope that this might be the proper venue to finally see my corrections addressed in some fashion. Below is a copy of the email I sent on 15 Oct 2002, 16 Dec 2002, and 30 Aug 2003. Any comments or suggestions are much appreciated. Bill Marr ---------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------- Hello Prof. Powell, While getting LPRng working with my Tektronix Phaser 740 printer, I have located 2 errors in the LPRng manual entitled "The Printing Cookbook", both in Section 5.3 -- "Taming the Wild Phaser Printer". The first error is a trivial typographical one -- Tektronix is misspelled as "Tektronics". The second error occurs in the "Offline Test:" command line: ifhp -Tdev=trace,debug=1 (...) which should read instead: ifhp -Ttrace,debug=1 (...) That is, the first 'dev=' occurrence in that command is erroneous -- it prevents the command from working properly. The proper "dev=" definition appears later on in the command. Hope this helps.... ------------------ I also noted that the '/etc/ifhp.conf' file that came in my Slackware 8.1 GNU/Linux distribution erroneously has the Tektronix Phaser 740 described and configured as PostScript-only when, in fact, this printer natively does PCL 5 (which of course includes HPGL[/2]) as well as PostScript. Reconfiguring the "[ phaser ]" section of this file by changing "pcl@" to "pcl" enabled the proper PCL and HPGL support, as confirmed by follow-on test prints. I don't know if there's a way for someone to fix the default "ifhp.conf" file that is distributed with LPRng, but I mention this for whatever it is worth. The Phaser 740 definitions are 'ganged' in the section "[ phaser360 phaser740 phaser750 phaser850 ]" but I'm not certain whether all of those printers support PCL, so I'm at a loss as to what to recommend, short of splitting the Phaser 740 into its own section. ------------------ If I can provide any more details or assistance with any of these matters, feel free to contact me. Thanks for providing a great package! Your work is much appreciated! Bill Marr ---------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- YOU MUST BE A LIST MEMBER IN ORDER TO POST TO THE LPRNG MAILING LIST The address you post from MUST be your subscription address If you need help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or lprng-requests or lprng-digest-requests) with the word 'help' in the body. For the impatient, to subscribe to a list with name LIST, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with: | example: subscribe LIST <mailaddr> | subscribe lprng-digest [EMAIL PROTECTED] unsubscribe LIST <mailaddr> | unsubscribe lprng [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have major problems, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word LPRNGLIST in the SUBJECT line. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
