On Tuesday 19 Feb 2002 6:50 pm, you wrote

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This is odd. One or the other, not both. I'd go for the BSD-derived lpr, along with magicfilter or similar, as they're very very simple. LPRng is probably overkill for you. CUPS is nice when it works, but is a very monolithic solution.

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I seem to remember Slackware leaving an email about how to set up printing in the root mailbox after installation. Does it still?

Yes it does, but both Chris and I had no success in getting it to work that way. The Apsfilter list suggested taking out lpr and putting in LPrng to overcome `permission problems', Slackware current has a Slackware package of LPrng to try to improve matters (for the same reason I presume), but in my case there have been that many ill informed attempts to get it to work, that I am seriously considering taking everything out and making a clean install, trouble is I lack not only the GNU/Linux experience but computing experience in general, (see previous post).

All I wanted was a controllable system which I could use to produce copy for publication, save my research notes and connect to the Internet, and print out papers for Editors. then I found GNU/Linux, and now I'm addicted, I've even spent a huge chunk of last years pocket money on new computers, and probably more on a huge GNU/Linux library which I have yet to understand.

-- John Seago Change is not synonymous with `progress'.

PS there may be both a considerable delay in sending this and/or multiple posts again. Time to complain to BT about their Exchange again! John