On 7/14/07, Douglas Allan Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca> wrote:
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> I'm wondering what the OBSD people generally use for print filtering.  I
> have an old IBM PC Graphics printer (dot-matrix) attached to my debian
> box but everyone there seems to use CUPS.  I could just as easily
> connect the printer to my OBSD box.
>
> The last time I used this printer to print postscript was a few years
> ago.  It was connected to a debian box running LPRng but debian's gs
> did't have a driver that would work.  I ended up using foomatic and
> gs-esp with the ML 320 driver.
>
> foomatic and cups seems like going overboard for something so simple.
> So what do OBSD people use?

Have a look at apsfilter. Simple to install as a pre-compiled binary
package. apsfilter needs ghostscript as well as a2ps.
There one small thing you may have to fix. a reference to gawk in the
SETUP script. I just changed it to "/usr/bin/awk".

=Adriaan=