Kenneth F. Ryder III wrote:

Yes, magicfilter is available in a .deb and can be installed with
dselect. It's spcifically available on Debian 1.3.1 from CheapBytes
and I'd assume it's on the lsl CDs, too.  Just put the CD in the drive,
run dselect, choose the CD medium, and when you get to the "Select"
screen, enter /magicfilter<RETURN>.  You should see the selection
line.  If not, try the ftp medium.   HTH
> 
> I was reading the HOWTO for printing (which was quite helpful) and it was
> telling me I needed filters to get my printer to behave (it prints in the
> staircase method)
> 
> file:
> this is
> not printing
> the way it should be
> 
> Print out:
> 
> this is
>                 not printing
>                                 the way it should
> 
> As I said the HOWTO said something about using filters to fix this, and
> that the magic filter (by B.A. McCawley) was available on the net.  (This
> filter seemed to cover many formats, which I would like to support.) Is
> there a way I can get a Debian package and use dselect to install it that
> will be magicfilter / do the same thing as magicfilter does? Or do I
> already have one? I have the "Official" Debian 1.3.1 Binay and Source disks
> from lsl.com,  perhaps they contain magic filter in a Debian package?
> 
> Also, I would like to recompile my kernel, I have done this with Slakware,
> durring its install I told it to install the kernel source, once in the
> system I changed to the soucre directroy and ran "make menuconfig", how do
> I do this in Debian?
> 
> Thanks
>         Ken
> 
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