docs/65766: [printing] Fdescfs needs to be mounted on FreeBSD 5.x

Simon Barner barner at in.tum.de
Mon Apr 19 17:50:21 UTC 2004


The following reply was made to PR docs/65766; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Simon Barner <barner at in.tum.de>
To: Marc Fonvieille <blackend at FreeBSD.org>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: docs/65766: [printing] Fdescfs needs to be mounted on FreeBSD 5.x
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 19:42:51 +0200

 Marc Fonvieille wrote:
 > Could you try this script:
 
 [...]
 
 Thanks, that works nicely (without fdescfs).
 
 > You will have to comment the 2nd line if you use an Epson printer (it's
 > your case) and don't forget to use the right device for -sDEVICE.
 > 
 > > Furthermore I'd like to add that I had to remove the following line from
 > > the ifhp example filter:
 > > 
 > > printf "\033&k2G" || exit 2
 > > (I am using an Epson Stylus Color 740 via the stcolor driver, GNU
 > > Ghostscript 7.07).
 > 
 > It's normal this line is for HP printers
 
 Perhaps this could be mentioned in the handbook?
 
 Simon



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