På 2006-01-04, skrev David Hummel: > On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 07:44:02AM -0800, Henry House wrote: > > > > The traditional way to share printers under Unix and Linux is lpd (the > > daemon half of lpr, which together with the lp* utilities for users > > constitutes the BSD printing system). I use this at my office because > > it is simple to configure (at least for me --- all my printers are > > postscript lasers) and does not require lots of support packages like > > CUPS. > > What packages are you referring to? The necessary packages (like > cupsys-bsd for the BSD commands) will already be installed on Ubuntu > systems. CUPS is arguably just as easy to configure so installing LPRng > may be more trouble than its worth at this stage.
That is more or less what I meant to say in my second paragraph (snipped fro the above), but you siad it more clearly. :) -- Henry House +1 530 753 3361 ext. 13 Please don't send me HTML mail! My mail system frequently rejects it. The unintelligible text that may follow is a digital signature. See <http://hajhouse.org/pgp> to find out how to use it. My OpenPGP key: <http://hajhouse.org/hajhouse.asc>.
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