-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Leon Brooks wrote: > If you print, say, some Espon-ish dotmatrix text with a few embedded > `Condensed Enable/Disable' commands the MIME type of your file goes from > ASCII-with-Escapes or PCL to `data' and CUPS throws it in the bin instead of > printing it. By uncommenting two lines in the /etc/cups/mime.* and restarting > CUPS, you get _really_ raw output. >
AFAIK, enabling this would also mean that cups would automatically handle PS vs PCL data coming from windows machines via samba, so we could remove the '-o raw' option from the default samba printing config and all printing would work out-the-box. Till? > It would be nice if there were some on-the-spot notice of this misbehaviour > somewhere; CUPS (any recent version shipped with Cooker or 9.0) itself > doesn't sem to have any. I can see why it is done (stops gonzos from printing > program files, for example) but it was a bit of a bastard to debug, hardly > mentioned on the Web anywhere. Unix isn't supposed to stop you from doing stupid things (and I think Olivier's example is one that shouldn't be fixed either ;-)). What if someone really wants a backup of a small binary on paper???? Buchan - -- |--------------Another happy Mandrake Club member--------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x121 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE+G/LJrJK6UGDSBKcRAlolAJwLCP8sXUojnC7rc/p8ylEopUrtmQCglawl GvDEY5b3Zu6IpNrwqAqrJ9w= =myVW -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
