At 16:08 +0200 27/06/2002, Harald Weis wrote: >Baptiste Cecconi wrote: >>Hi there, >> >>I had to setup command line printing on my OSX a few months ago, >>and I made a tutorial web page, but it is in french... (sorry i'm >>french ;-) >>http://macspabc.obspm.fr/mac.php?id=2 >> >>I can give you there some tips and tricks about this setup : >> >>1. edit the /etc/printcap file to add your printer. Keep in mind >>that for an unknown reason, you can't give aliases in your >>/etc/printcap file, so the entry should be in the following form : >> > >Many thanks to everybody, > >Command line printing does work fine as described by Baptiste. I had >indeed loaded the contents of /etc/printcap into NetInfo at the very >beginning, but it did not work because of the alias declared in printcap. > >In fact, printcap can keep the aliases if one likes to, but they *must* >not be in NetInfo. It's easy to achieve this in 4 simple commands as root: > >step 1: `niload printcap . < /etc/printcap' >step 2: `nidump -r /printers . > netinfo.printers' >step 3: `vi netinfo.printers' to suppress the aliases >step 4: `niload -r /printers . < netinfo.printers' > >Thanks again to all of you, > >`lpr', `Print' and `a2ps', all three work now :-) > >And thanks for the info about CUPS which I ignored. > >Cheers, > >Harald
Well I think I'm going to add that to my page !! Thanks for the tip ! Bapts ------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by: ThinkGeek at http://www.ThinkGeek.com/ _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
