"Lindsay" == Lindsay Yardley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Lindsay> G'day Bob, Patrick, others, Thank you for your reply but Lindsay> cups seems rather bloated and fickle,I wanted the one Lindsay> installed by the default debian tasksel option is that Lindsay> lpr, lprng or gnulpr? or is one of these or another Lindsay> rather nice & compact and sufficient? tia Lindsay A standard woody install will give you 'lpr' as the default print system. This is the BSD print system (with lpr, lpc, lpd and friends). There is no easy way to configure this print system by itself as far as I remember, but since I've quit using it I can't know for sure. I typically used to install apsfilter with lpr. The apsfilter installation/setup script was pretty good at creating the correct /etc/printcap file. It would some times take a little hand editing of /etc/printcap when I was done. For remote printing I had to read the documents and edit files by hand. /etc/hosts.lpd is a file I remember, and I had to put names in there, not IP addresses..... I've been doing this for over 8 years nowm first with Slackware and more recently with Debian. I have to say CUPS may be bloated, but lpr is much more fickle IMHO ;-) Perhaps gnulpr is better, but I've never used it. Cheers! Shyamal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]