to "raw" read the input. Check if the read command
can handle "-r" and use it if possible
* fix some minor bugs with PostScript handling
Submitted by: Michael Lossin <losse@germanymail.com>
* ASCII_STYLE is gone; use PS_NUP and LANDSCAPE now (class
options: 1pps, 2pps, 4pps, 8pps, landscape, portrait)
* new config option: HARDWARE_DUPLEX; set this for printers
that can handle duplex printing by themselves
* new function: ps_postprocessing() handles all PS_UTILS etc.
* tray selection for duplex printers (as a shell function)
* more class options: shortbind, longbind, tray0...tray9,
book; related config options: BINDING, PAPERTRAY, PS_BOOK
* give some more info on how to manually flip sheets
* SETUP: fix SMB_FLAGS line for smbclient.conf
* use "-r" option for many read operations
* small fixes here and there
Update to this snap is highly recommended.
Michael Loßin <phallobst@web.de>
--------------------------------
Here are some small changes to the duplex code, more class stuff
and several minor tweaks:
* duplex printing:
- "forced simplex" mode was totally fscked up
(infinite loop _and_ wrong print command)
- use psselect _or_ pstops to extract odd/even pages
- one less temporary file
* new function send_mail for duplex and failure messages
* DVIPS_REVERSE and ACROREAD_REVERSE are gone; PS_UTILS
should be used to correct _all_ file formats
* new class options:
- a3,a4,letter,legal,ledger (paper size)
- a2ps,mpage,recode (ASCII filter)
- 1pps,2pps,4pps,8pps (pages per sheet)
- border,noborder,header,noheader (ASCII style)
- landscape (force orientation for ASCII and DVI)
- simplex (force non-duplex mode)
- color,mono (color handling)
* FAQ update
* slight manpage fixes
* Makefile fixes
* small cosmetic changes here and there
changes from me:
----------------
* SETUP: A -> abort, I -> install a printer, Q finish installation
I think quit is the usual leave operation
* hint for FreeBSD ports collection, not to install manpages
* SETUP, apsfilter: Change my mail address to andreas@apsfilter.org
* SETUP: make more clear how to restart the lineprinter scheduler
* SETUP: install_man_pages:
- document 'default' to not install manpages when simply
hitting RETURN, ie. when installing from FreeBSD ports
collection
- its not clear if FreeBSD user used ports collection or
not, so ask if manual pages should be installed or not
* SETUP: save 2 seconds sleep by combining a message
* FAQ, use the SGML based version
Changes to the FAQ should directly be made to the doc tree !
* TODO: remove resolved items, update some ITEMS and one new.
machine). So here now some bugfixes to make SETUP work again !
* SETUP: fix permissions of $SPOOLDIR
700 was to restrictive for BSD.
TODO: "clone" permissions of $SPOOL
* SETUP: bugfix: BSD needs /usr/sbin in PATH to find chown.
added /sbin as well, since this is unexpensive and possibly
needed for other systems.
* SETUP: cosmetic, reformat menues to still fit within 25 lines
* SETUP: fix: grep -c needs an argument (".") in echo "\c" | grep -c .
to work on FreeBSD and possibly other BSDs with GNU grep 2.4
my dual PIII-700 trying to figure out the sizes of the
primary and secondary caches. The sizes turned out to be
rather wrong (definetly true for the L2 cache, may be L1
is indeed 32Kb). Their algorithm seems bogus to me, but
most importantly, the obtained values are NOT USED
anywhere in the GhostScript code... One of the submitted
patches rips the "cache size" section from the genarch
entirely.
The attached modification and new patches also:
. replace the use of mktemp/fopen with mkstemp/fdopen
. modify the unix-gcc.mak so that there is no need for
GNU-make
PR: 20038
Submitted by: Mikhail Teterin <mi@aldan.algebra.com>
apsfilter 6.0-RELEASE.
- The installation directory changed
from ${PREFIX}/apsfilter
to ${PREFIX}/share/apsfilter
- Its possible to run SETUP on a NFS client from mounted ${PREFIX}/share
and so to install apsfilter on NFS clients ...
- Now Linux and FreeBSD have the same installation directory.
- /etc/apsfilter contains since 6.0 (2 weeks ago) a little directory
structure for every printer.
- Switching between apsfilter releases is possible by simply changing
the destination of the symblic link /etc/apsfilter/basedir.
Apsfilter V 6.0 _is_ in my humble opineon stable and useable and
the best apsfilter release ever since filtersetup and such things
have gone ... apsfilter has been modernized from ground up.
So please test test test.
last recent changes:
Mo 14 Aug 2000 07:05:28 CEST Andreas Klemm <andreas@apsfilter.org>
* SETUP: use "-" instead of "-_", as reported from
Hal Bower. To make print_testpage work on every gs version.
For printing the test page this is enough.
* info file fix: use new domain "apsfilter.org"
* refresh info concerning mailing-lists, the following are
available now:
- apsfilter-announce Announcements
- apsfilter-chat talk/chat around apsfilter and printing
- apsfilter-current developer version of apsfilter
- apsfilter-cvs Commit Messages of Apsfilter Developers
- apsfilter-devel Closed List for Apsfilter Developers
- apsfilter-hackers Technical Discussion, code submissions
- apsfilter-help User Support / Help Forum
- apsfilter-printing Printing under Unix environment
- apsfilter-stable apsfilter stable release (5.x)
