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From: eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Dot matrix printers on the cube?
Summary: Minor problems
Message-ID: <117@toaster.SFSU.EDU>
Date: 14 Nov 89 06:38:40 GMT
References: <9282@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> <116@toaster.SFSU.EDU>
Reply-To: eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Organization: San Francisco State University
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Some minor problems with the setup given in the referenced
article:

1) Apparently any (unprivileged) user can run PrintManager, click
Configure, try to set the access to Public, and PrintManager will
merrily trash much of the printcap information.

2) Clicking Test (or trying to print from any application) will
send a whole bunch of raw PostScript to the printer.  This may
surprise a few people.

What are the "re" and "mf" flags in /etc/printcap (I see they're
not actually in the netinfo database in 1.0, but they were in
0.9)?  They're not described on printcap's man page.

					-=EPS=-