> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Oct 18 09:35:00 2000
> Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 11:21:16 -0400
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> From: Dan Kirkpatrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: LPRng: some newbie ?'s
>
> I've been fighting with DEC unix osf trying to get accounting and such and
> got fed up.
>
> Now I have a new Linux server running RedHat 6.0 and wondered a few things
> with LPRng over RH Linux's lpd.
>
> 1) Does LPRng provide correct accounting for postscript files as well as
> PCL files sent through Samba? (that was the problem with other platforms,
> it counted PS fine, but always thought PCL was only 1 page).
> Anyones experience show lpd on RH Linux 6.0 accounting work or not work for
> PS & PCL?
LPRng uses 'hardware' based accounting rather than the whimpy
'count the showpages' that students^H^H^H^H^H^H^H users soon
learn to circumvent.
>
> 2) I can back it out, but when trying to install RPM's for LPRng, it warned
> "file <several files> from install of LPRng-3.6.26-1 conflicts with file
> from package lpr-0.50-4", so I backed up the conflicting files, and forced
> the install to overwrite. Sound ok? Or should I backout and do differently?
Yes.
>
> 3) Constantly have problems with people sending PS, PCL, PDF, file.ps.gz,
> file.ps.tar, etc to the printer. Does LPRng offer nicer solutions to say,
> hey, this is PDF/gziped/etc, lets convert/uncompress for them???
Yes. See the ifhp filter.
>
>
> Thanks!
> --Dan
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