[734] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Linux needs control.exe
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Erik Troan)
Thu Oct 24 12:13:03 1996
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 12:05:22 -0400 (EDT)
From: Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.SGI.3.93.961024084038.27233A-100000@heart.engr.csulb.edu>
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On Thu, 24 Oct 1996, Anthony Martin wrote:
> The Red Hat print filter is a joke. I don't know why Red Hat insists on
> doing everything from scratch. I highly recommend magicfilter, available
> from sunsite. It is very easy to configure and can be set up to use any
> number of filters. Do you want to print a compressed dvi file? No
> problem. It has a lot of printers already configured and it is easy to
> add more. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be an rpm for it.
The Red Hat print filter has been around a lot longer then magicfilter.
Switching to use a better filtering program in on our TODO list, and I
hope something will happen relatively soon.
Erik
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