Welcome to the fold Rich,
> Help!
A lonely cry from the wilderness.
I'm probably not the one who's going to help you,
but rest assured, someone will. I seem to be the
only one online at the moment. Don't dispair!
> Hi, I got your email address from the Linux Magazine LUG listings,
Fame at last!
> I'm a home PC linux user - I bought Mandrkae 7.1 to go with a new PC
> last year, and I've been slowly gaining confidence with it ever since.
> Desktop use works okay, but its the command line level where things tend not
> to follow the published instructions.
[...]
> I recently bought an Epson Stylus Colour 680, having checked out it's
> suitability with Linux @ www.linux-printing.org. So far so good, and I've
> created a UPP driver (Stc680p.upp), placed it in the correct Ghostscript
> directory along with the existent ones, added the correct entry into the
> rhsprinter.db database file under the Epson Stylus Colour (UP) section [see
> www.best.com/~murakami/uppfiles/index.html] and
There are so many instructions for unix software, its overwhelming at first.
Does Mandrake come with a load of ghostscript docs under /usr/doc or
/usr/share/doc or /usr/share/ghostscript ?
Try "locate /Devices.htm" or "locate /devices.doc"
Mine are under /usr/share/ghostscript/5.50/doc (not from a Mandrake kit).
You need current docs for it, some of the HOWTOs and FAQs may be
a bit out of date.
> [...] tried both "printtool" and
> Mandrake's own "printerdrake" utilities. Neither show the addition of the 680
> in their listing sections - and there are no obvious case-sensitive
> discrepancies [my usual first mistake!]. Bum. What am I missing? Why won't
> the printer list update to show the contenct of rhsprinter.db?
How I hate these all-singing all-dancing configuration/installation
scripts - see if you can get underneath them to see what they are
*TRYING* to do. Look at the ghostscript docs and also "man lpr",
"man lpd", and "man printcap", to see what the scripts *SHOULD*
be doing.
Is "printtool" a shell script? If so, dont be afraid to edit it!
Try running "bash -vx printtool" to watch where it fails to work.
Likewise with "printerdrake".
I dont recognise the name rhsprinter.db, but somehow the "lpr" command
or whatever your print command is, has to know which printer driver(s)
to use. My /etc/printcap file does this for my "lpr" command.
If the programs are all pre-compiled binaries, try "strings lpr | less"
or "strace -o /tmp/s lpr" and find out what files they are looking for.
> [...] I believe in the notion, power and
> future of Linux and I don't want to have to give it up and crawl back to Bill's
> empire!
Right on brother! I'm sure someone more familiar with the
Epson Stylus Colour 680 will post some better help for you soon.
> Rich Chaney
Watch this email group for when we arrange to next meet up.
Ted.
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