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A new magic filter - version 1.1

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Tue Mar 28 19:04:59 1995

Date: Tue, 28 Mar 1995 10:23:16 +0300
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-activists@niksula.hut.fi, linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu

X-Mn-Key: announce

From: hpa@trantor.yggdrasil.com (H. Peter Anvin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Subject: A new magic filter - version 1.1
Followup-To: comp.os.linux.setup
References: <3keu4b$92u@kruuna.helsinki.fi>
Keywords: lpd magicfilter printing automatic
Organization: ?
Approved: linux-announce@news.ornl.gov (Lars Wirzenius)

I have released an update of my "magic" printer filter.  Added in this
version is automatic generation of configuration file, using GNU
Autoconf to examine installed software on your system (as well as
several minor enhancements).  This version ship with printer filters
for 40 different types of printers.

LSM entry follows.

Begin3
Title:          magicfilter
Version:        1.1
Entered-date:   27MAR95
Description:	A customizable, extensible automatic printer filter.
		Lets you automatically detect and print just about any
		data type you can find a conversion utility for.  This
		filter is written in C and is controlled completely
		from an external printer configuration file.
		This version adds automagic creation of configuration
		files based on the installed software on your system,
		courtesy of GNU Autoconf.
Keywords:	lpd magicfilter printing automatic       
Author:         H. Peter Anvin <Peter.Anvin@linux.org>
Maintained-by:  H. Peter Anvin <Peter.Anvin@linux.org>
Primary-site:   sunsite.unc.edu
		51367	/pub/Linux/system/Printing/magicfilter-1.1.tar.gz
Alternate-site: 
Original-site:  
Platform:       Any reasonably POSIX compliant UNIX system with a print spooler
Copying-policy: GPL
End

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