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Re: Linux needs control.exe

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Fulbright)
Thu Oct 24 12:17:54 1996

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In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 24 Oct 1996 08:47:26 PDT."
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Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 12:11:25 -0400
From: Michael Fulbright <msf@redhat.com>
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> 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.
> 
> Tony.
> 

Fixing printtool is fairly high on the list of things to do next.
We'll be exploring existing print filters as a solution.

Michael Fulbright
msf@redhat.com



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