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[Ron Clarke <ariadne AT acepia.net.au>]

Hi Sindi,

On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 14:56:03 -0500 (EST)
Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com> wrote:
> What percentage of basiclinux users actually ever succeed in printing 
> anything besides plain text?  
> 
> I did chmod +x to printcap as well as to the copies of deskjet.filter in 
> both /ghostscript/ and /postscript/.  I killed lpd and loaded it again.  I 
> am still not even getting a page feed any more.  
> 
> 
> > Regards,
> >         Ron
> > 
> Ron did you ever get this working?

   No !       :(

   And I have given up trying.  No matter what I did, I always get:
    "unknown printer"

    And with all respect, both PRINT- and USAGE-HOWTO's did not shed any 
light on
the problem.

    If I ever, EVER, consider moving my business from DOS to Linux, it would 
have
to be with a working (and printing) Linux word processer.  Looks like it is 
not
going to be anytime soon.   :(

    But at least SYLPHEED is now working, along with Links, Netscape, and - at
last - mpg123 plays MP3s.  And I am about to try installing Opera.static.

    And I will try to get the ICEWM to stretch to more than 16 colours (I 
have 64
MB RAM on an AMD K6, with a 2 MB Diamond Stealth video card and a newish
flat-screen monitor fer-forks-sake). Steven: You have said "increase 
colordepth"
but I have not yet found a configuration file that has "colordepth" as an 
editable parameter. I still get icewm changing to unreadable colours when I 
place
the mouse over any application (like Links-colour, Display, XPDF, 
RealPlayer8),
and anything run in an xterm is in black and white and almost unreadable 
(e.g. MC, Camp, xaumix).

     I know it is a steep learning curve, but this one needs cramp-ons and a
rope!

BTW: I have found the easiest way to find stuff in MANIFEST.GZ is to view 
(F3) it
with MC and use the search (F7) facility.

     And a Happy New Year to all. It is morning of 1st January 2004 in Oz. 
For some, this is the future.

Regards,
         Ron