FreeBSD CUPS and filePro only thing not printing

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 01:55:52PM -0700, Bill Campbell wrote:
> Current versions of CUPS support the standard SYSV lp, lpadmin, family of
> commands including support for standard SYSV style printer interface
> scripts.  I find these far superior for printing from most database and
> accounting applications to text based printers since it involves no
> conversions from text to PostScript, back to some kind of printer bitmap.

In earlier lprng installs, they existed, but were merely differently
shaped versions of lpr; in CUPS they're actually different programs?

> On a slightly related note, I see that the SQL-Ledger program appears to do
> most of its fancier reports using TeX templates.

I thought that quite clever, yes.

Cheers,
-- jra
-- 
Jay R. Ashworth                                                jra at baylink.com
Designer                          Baylink                             RFC 2100
Ashworth & Associates        The Things I Think                        '87 e24
St Petersburg FL USA      http://baylink.pitas.com             +1 727 647 1274

	"NPR has a lot in common with Nascar... we both turn to the left."
		- Peter Sagal, on Wait Wait, Don't Tell Me!