Re: terminal only for two weeks

Salvador Mirzo <smirzo@example.com> writes:

Jerry Peters <jerry@example.invalid> writes:
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Salvador Mirzo <smirzo@example.com> wrote:

Ivan Shmakov <ivan@siamics.netREMOVE.invalid> writes:
 

On 2025-01-16, Salvador Mirzo wrote:

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 > I suspect I imagine wrong how things actually work.  I thought
 > perhaps there would be a command line such as ``lpr --pages 7-14''.
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      As has already been pointed in this thread, CUPS, a fairly
      common choice for a printer spooler in GNU/Linux systems,
      provides lp(1) command that does have just such an option.

 
Thanks for the information.  It turns out I'm not being able to print
two-sided-long-edge with CUPS and my Brother HL-L2360DW.  I resorted to
using /etc/printcap and lpd's lpr (not CUPS's lpr) because I can then
set my printer to always do two-sided-long-edge, which is nearly 100% of
the way I print.

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Sounds like an incorrect PPD, which is where the various options come
from.
I have a HL220dw and CUPS supports both simplex and duplex printing,
selectable at the time I print.

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Awesome news.  I've tried hacking my PPD a file a bit, but
unsuccessfully.  I've reported my attempts to
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  comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc.
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Would you be so kind to share your PPD?  I could perhaps get more clues
seeing one PPD file that really works.  I have suspected mine could be
faulty, but I know so little about PPDs and PostScript.  My greatest
insight so far is that the PPD file houses small PostScript snippets
that PostScript-generating software that use to make the printer do one
thing or another.  Here's my full PPD in use. FWIW:
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*PPD-Adobe: "4.3"

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Looks like something is line-wrapping my long lines.  I don't think
that's my news reader---Gnus v5.13.  Could it be Eternal September?
I've no idea.