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Re: [trinity-users] printcap?

From: Peter Laws <plaws@...>
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 08:34:17 -0500
On 10/21/11 08:28, Peter Laws wrote:
> If only it were so easy. Maybe it is.
>
> I'm on nightly builds on top of Natty. Some rough edges, but definitely
> usable.
>
> One of the rough edges is that the printer wizard has no printer defs.
>
> So the question is, which file or files do I need to grab from my old
> Trinity/Lucid installation (which was done from CD, not nightlies)?
>
> Is that even doable? If it was 1991, I could probably just copy
> /etc/printcap ... :-)

Holy carp - there is an /etc/printcap!  Should have grepped before joking!

Comments therein indicate that it's generated from entries in 
/etc/cups/printers.conf ...  If I copy this file, will it all just work?


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