Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS
C. P. Ghost
cpghost at cordula.ws
Thu Oct 27 16:17:56 UTC 2011
On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 5:29 PM, Polytropon <freebsd at edvax.de> wrote:
> BUT: CUPS seems to be hardcoded into many applications
> today. They stopped working with the non-CUPS default
> system tools. An example is Opera. Another one is Gimp
> which works with system lp* tools, but has hardcoded
> queries to "lpstat" (a CUPS program that doesn't exist
> or "cannot connect to the server"). The upcoming question
> here is: WHY???
(...)
> CUPS also has program names that are derived from LPR's
> competitor. The "lpstat" command is such an example, and
> I think "lpadmin" also is.
lpstat and lpadmin are standard SysV tools for printing.
They existed LONG before CUPS:
http://developers.sun.com/solaris/articles/print/sol_lp1.html
Please note that there are two distinct toolsets for (traditional)
UNIX printing:
* lpr tools for BSD printing
* lp tools for SysV printing
Please don't call the BSD lpr toolset "lp tools", that's pretty
confusing to us old-gen sysadmins. ;-)
Regards,
-cpghost.
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