Great. The reason I knew the answer is because I had the same problem for the last two weeks and I got what I knew to be bad advice from a few people. So I kept trying (I've been in the profession for 27 years but it hardly helps...).
I finally went purusing thru the ports directory for CUPS. On Wednesday 25 August 2004 02:16 pm, edwinculp wrote: > Steven, that was it, THANK YOU ! It works great! > That is one of the disadvantages to portinstall and portupgrade. I missed > the make.conf message. Someone else tried to tell me that but I wasn't > listening. Your message was precise and it was working in minutes. > > Thanks again, > > ed > > Now off to try to print on the network. > > ----- Mensaje original ----- > De: Steven Friedrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Fecha: Miércoles, Agosto 25, 2004 12:35 pm > Asunto: Re: apsfilter and Epson Stylus C63 on Current > > > On Tuesday 24 August 2004 08:21 am, edwinculp wrote: > > > ----- Mensaje original ----- > > > De: Anish Mistry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Fecha: Lunes, Agosto 23, 2004 11:59 pm > > > Asunto: Re: apsfilter and Epson Stylus C63 on Current > > > > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > > > > Just to check, you have removed the base install's lp* utilities > > > > right? > > > > > > No, I must have read over, under, around and/or through that in > > > > the cups > > > > > howto's I been using. > > > > > > Let me be sure that I am understanding. I should remove lpd, > > > > lpq, lpc, > > > > > lpr, lprm and family to use cups? > > > > > > That could definitely be the problem because I have't done it. > > > > > > Thanks, I'll give it a try in a few. > > > > > > ed > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > > > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > > > Actually, all you need do is follow the instructions at the bottom > > of the > > Makefile in /usr/ports/print/cups-lpr > > > > It says to add two lines to /etc/make.conf > > > > And if you've done a installworld since you've installed cups-lpr, > > just > > deinstall, reinstall cups-lpr. > > > > Before you begin, try which lpr. > > > > which will report which lpr command is found first via the path > > variable. I > > suspect it will say /usr/bin/lpr. After you perform the above > > steps, it'll > > say /usr/local/bin/lpr. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
