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Leon Brooks wrote:
If you print, say, some Espon-ish dotmatrix text with a few embedded
`Condensed Enable/Disable' commands the MIME type of your file goes from
ASCII-with-Escapes or PCL to `data' and CUPS throws it in the bin
instead of
printing it. By uncommenting two lines in the /etc/cups/mime.* and
restarting
CUPS, you get _really_ raw output.
AFAIK, enabling this would also mean that cups would automatically
handle PS vs PCL data coming from windows machines via samba, so we
could remove the '-o raw' option from the default samba printing config
and all printing would work out-the-box. Till?
It would be nice if there were some on-the-spot notice of this
misbehaviour
somewhere; CUPS (any recent version shipped with Cooker or 9.0) itself
doesn't sem to have any. I can see why it is done (stops gonzos from
printing
program files, for example) but it was a bit of a bastard to debug,
hardly
mentioned on the Web anywhere.
Unix isn't supposed to stop you from doing stupid things (and I think
Olivier's example is one that shouldn't be fixed either ;-)). What if
someone really wants a backup of a small binary on paper
Buchan
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