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<H4>"Linux Gazette...<I>making Linux just a little more fun!</I>"
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<H4 align="center">By James T. Dennis,
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<a href="mailto:linux-questions-only@ssc.com">linux-questions-only@ssc.com</a><BR>
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Starshine Technical Services,
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<A HREF="http://www.starshine.org/">http://www.starshine.org/</A> </H4>
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<H3><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" alt="(?)" width="50" height="28"
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align="left" border="0">winprinters & MTAs</h3>
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<H4>Pointers and Corrections</H4>
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<p><strong>From John Levon on 05 Jun 1998
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Hi, two points:
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1) for win printers, someone has written a PPA driver. i don't have
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the URL, but it was mentioned in 2 cent tips a while ago i think.
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This possibly enables win printers to be used with linux
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<blockquote><img src="../gx/dennis/bbub.gif"width="50" height="28" alt="(!)"
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In fact I had heard of it. However, it had not progressed
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far enough along, last I checked, to be worth mention in
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LG. It's a tough call for me whether to go dig up the
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latest scoop on a digression or whether to gloss over it
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in the interests of conveying the more important message.
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The important message is that "Winprinters" and "Winmodems"
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are a big lose for everyone involved (even for Windows '95
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users, who may find them "abandoned" in future versions of
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Windows and NT). These are not "progressive" developments
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in the hardware market. The other important message is
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that we shouldn't have to reverse engineer these protocols.
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While I admire the heroic efforts of people like Andrew
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Tridgell (original architect of Samba, who implemented it
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by analysis of the packets off "the wire")
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<br><br>
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For those that are interested in some info on the
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HP PPA printer drivers for Ghostscript and Linux look at:
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<dl><dt>Ghostscript Printer Compatibility
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<dd><A HREF="http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/printer.html"
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>http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/printer.html</A>
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</dl>
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... and follow their link to:
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<dl><dt>(Tim Norman's) PPA for the masses
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<dd><A HREF="http://www.rpi.edu/~normat/technical/ppa/index.html"
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>http://www.rpi.edu/~normat/technical/ppa/index.html</A>
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</dl>
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... and for other printer stuff for Linux try Goob's:
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<dl><dt>Linux Links: Software : Utilities : Printer
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<dd><A HREF="http://www.linuxlinks.com/Software/Utilities/Printer/"
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>http://www.linuxlinks.com/Software/Utilities/Printer/</A>
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<p><strong><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif"width="50" height="28" alt="(?)"
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2) instead of www.faq.org, try <A HREF="http://www.faqs.org/">www.faqs.org</A>.
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this is a top site that automatically contains HTML versions of FAQs on
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<A HREF="ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/">rtfm.mit.edu</A>
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<BR><BR>
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thanks,
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<br>john.
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Doh! I looked for that by memory and tried "faq.org" first.
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I didn't think to try "faqs.org" (and it wasn't in the
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bookmark file on the machine I was typing from at that
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moment). I remember being impressed with faqs.org and
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as disappointed when I look "back" (finding the wrong one).
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Thanks for catching that!
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<H5 align="center"><a href="http://www.linuxgazette.com/copying.html"
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>Copyright ©</a> 1998, James T. Dennis <BR>
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Published in <I>Linux Gazette</I> Issue 30 July 1998</H5>
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