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Am Dienstag, 6. September 2011, 17:48:49 schrieb Alan Mackenzie: |
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> Hi, Michael. |
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> On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 07:03:19PM +0200, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: |
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> > Am Dienstag, 6. September 2011, 16:43:39 schrieb Alan Mackenzie: |
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> > > Is that right? How about it being saner to conform to standardised |
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> > > interfaces, protocols and formats? |
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> > How about IPP? |
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> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Printing_Protocol |
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> > Oh wait... that's what cups is using. |
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> Ah yes, a standard. So we have the choice between all the IPP |
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> implementations. That's cups and, ... err - is there another one? |
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Well, there's lprng-ipp. Not in portage though |
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http://jointlab.upol.cz/~michale/projects/lprng-ipp/ |
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For other OSes there are other implementations available. |
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> But why should I have to use an over the top bloated "Internet" protocol? |
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> I've got one single printer on the end of a USB cable. I want a simple |
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> spooler, as simple as possible and not simpler. |
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> > > No, the sane alternative is to use the `lpr' command, possibly |
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> > > augmented by special arguments for particular spoolers, but always |
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> > > having a fallback to standard `lpr'. That way, everybody's happy. |
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> > > Even me. ;-)> |
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> > How about the lpr command provided by cups? |
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> > Does it not work for you? |
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> I believe it did work for me for the short time I had cups installed. |
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> More pertinent is, why won't the lpr command work for LibreOffice? |
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Because LibreOffice uses ipp for printing. |
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Michael |