Selim Jahangir wrote:
>
> Dear all
> is there any tool to configure printer from command mode? printtool is
used
> in X-window. But without configuring x-window Can i not be able to
configure
> a printer ? Obviously there should have a solution.. Please help me to
> configure a printer without printtool.
You might want to check out the manual at freebsd.org for the best
tutorial on /etc/printcap I have found:
http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/printing.html. If you start reading man
pages - man 5 printcap, man lpr, etc., - I think you will see that the
BSD print spooler has been adapted to RedHat. What does that printtool
GUI do? Most significantly it writes the /etc/printcap file with the
information you give it. You can write your own printcap file with your
text editor if you read the BSD tutorial. Also, you can enter all of the
print related commands from the command prompt. Printtool wrote the line
/var/spool/lpd/lp/filter in my printcap file. This file points you to
the printfilters in /usr/lib/rhs-printfilters/. From here you go to
Ghostscript and the printer drivers it calls. I am still looking at
Ghostscript documentation...it is huge.
Good luck!
Bill
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