On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 09:58:01PM +0100, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > On Fri, 12 Dec 2008, Jacob Meuser wrote: > > > On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 09:48:35PM +0100, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > > > On Fri, 12 Dec 2008, Jacob Meuser wrote: > > > > one last note: pretty much every driver that can be used with cups > > > > can be used with base lpd, it's just a little more work ... imo the > > > > > > This is true except it is much more complicated to pass options to stock > > > lpd than it is for cups if I want e.g. a4 with photo color and duplex. > > > > I used to set up a few printcap entries for the same printer: lp, > > scratch, photo, p4up. > > Exactly, that was my point :-) > It works fine, it's just not very intuivive.
that's the classic lpd approach, if i'm not mistaken. <sarcasm> didn't this thread start off with complaints about things being non-intuitive? </sarcasm> anyway ... I think the following isn't such a bad idea. -- jake...@sdf.lonestar.org SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org Index: files/cups-enable =================================================================== RCS file: /home2/cvs/OpenBSD/ports/print/cups/files/cups-enable,v retrieving revision 1.1.1.1 diff -u -r1.1.1.1 cups-enable --- files/cups-enable 16 Jan 2005 12:36:42 -0000 1.1.1.1 +++ files/cups-enable 12 Dec 2008 21:21:44 -0000 @@ -28,10 +28,30 @@ ###################################################################### if [ -e /usr/sbin/lpd.pre-cups ]; then - echo "lpd already preserved, not saving old files." + echo "Backed up files exist. Continuing this script will overwrite" + echo "system files without saving them." + echo -n "Are you sure you want to continue (y/[n])? " + + read answer + echo "" + + if [ X$answer != Xy ]; then + echo "exit" + exit + fi + echo "" elif [ ! -e /usr/sbin/lpd ]; then echo "Couldn't find lpd files, not saving old files." + echo -n "Are you sure you want to continue (y/[n])? " + + read answer + echo "" + + if [ X$answer != Xy ]; then + echo "exit" + exit + fi echo "" else echo "Trying to save lpd files:"
