personaly.. i prefer the way netscape prints.. just give it a command, and
it prints.. admin-wise i don't mind staroffice.. cept the fact that it's
kinda flakey.. just spew postscript, and let the printing system take care
of it.. that's my philosophy. which reminds me.. when the hell is redhat
going to ditch BSD lpr, for lprng?
Thank You,
Ben Kochie (ben at nerp.net)
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"Unix is user friendly, Its just picky about its friends."
On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Andy Zbikowski wrote:
> The price on the Applix box was $99. It rang up at $70 or so at the register
> though. I've been using it daily. I have yet to have it crash, and all the
> word documents I've imported worked. Also imported a timesheet no problem.
> Formulas and everything.
>
> The only real issue I had was printing. Applix parses your printcap, and
> expects a BSD style printcap. I'm using LPRNG. With lprng you can get away
> with not finishing your lines with :\. Well, Applix was royally confused by
> this. E-mail tech support was timely enough, but I ended up figuring out the
> problem on my own. LPRNG works just fine with a proper BSD printcap.
>
> Netscape/Mozilla/StarOffice could learn quite a bit from the way Applixware
> handles printing. It's nice that it doesn't try to reinvent the wheel (yet
> again! lpr, lprng, cupsys...) like StarOffice does. The only thing it really
> adds is PCL support. I haven't bothered trying, as I'm happy with my
> printers performance with ghostscript. (LPRNG lets you filter print jobs to
> remote printers locally, nice!)
>
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