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Re: terminal only for two weeks

From Salvador Mirzo <smirzo@example.com>
Newsgroups comp.misc
Subject Re: terminal only for two weeks
Date 2025-02-16 22:56 -0300
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <87h64te3l4.fsf@example.com> (permalink)
References (5 earlier) <87o7071s35.fsf@example.com> <5Lra_5CB4XHr0riW@violet.siamics.net> <87frkjuop1.fsf@example.com> <votjb8$oknv$1@dont-email.me> <87r03xe3ol.fsf@example.com>

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Salvador Mirzo <smirzo@example.com> writes:

> Jerry Peters <jerry@example.invalid> writes:
>
>> Salvador Mirzo <smirzo@example.com> wrote:
>>> Ivan Shmakov <ivan@siamics.netREMOVE.invalid> writes:
>>> 
>>>>>>>>> On 2025-01-16, Salvador Mirzo wrote:
>>>>
>>>>  > I suspect I imagine wrong how things actually work.  I thought
>>>>  > perhaps there would be a command line such as ``lpr --pages 7-14''.
>>>>
>>>>       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.
>>
>> 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.
>
> Awesome news.  I've tried hacking my PPD a file a bit, but
> unsuccessfully.  I've reported my attempts to
>
>   comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc.
>
> 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:
>
> *PPD-Adobe: "4.3"

[...]

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.

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terminal only for two weeks Retrograde <fungus@amongus.com.invalid> - 2024-11-25 13:34 +0000
  Re: terminal only for two weeks D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-11-25 22:18 +0100
  Re: terminal only for two weeks Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-11-25 21:52 +0000
    Re: terminal only for two weeks Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2024-11-26 03:18 -0400
      Re: terminal only for two weeks Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-11-26 21:28 +0000
    Re: terminal only for two weeks yeti <yeti@tilde.institute> - 2024-11-26 09:22 +0042
      Re: terminal only for two weeks Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-11-26 21:24 +0000
    Re: terminal only for two weeks candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2024-11-30 01:20 +0000
      Re: terminal only for two weeks yeti <yeti@tilde.institute> - 2024-11-30 04:22 +0042
        Re: terminal only for two weeks candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2024-12-01 20:40 +0000
      Re: terminal only for two weeks Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-11-30 03:52 +0000
        Re: terminal only for two weeks candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2024-12-01 20:40 +0000
          Re: terminal only for two weeks Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-12-01 23:24 +0000
            Re: terminal only for two weeks candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2024-12-02 02:00 +0000
              Re: terminal only for two weeks Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-12-02 05:41 +0000
  Re: terminal only for two weeks John McCue <jmccue@qball.jmcunx.com> - 2024-11-26 03:13 +0000
    Re: terminal only for two weeks D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-11-26 10:22 +0100
      Re: terminal only for two weeks yeti <yeti@tilde.institute> - 2024-11-26 12:15 +0042
        Re: terminal only for two weeks D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-11-26 16:36 +0100
          Re: terminal only for two weeks not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2024-11-27 07:52 +1000
            Re: terminal only for two weeks D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-11-27 10:51 +0100
              Re: terminal only for two weeks not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2024-11-28 06:44 +1000
                Re: terminal only for two weeks yeti <yeti@tilde.institute> - 2024-11-28 05:54 +0042
                Re: terminal only for two weeks D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-11-28 10:52 +0100
                Re: terminal only for two weeks not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2024-11-29 06:17 +1000
                Re: terminal only for two weeks D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-11-28 22:05 +0100
                Re: terminal only for two weeks yeti <yeti@tilde.institute> - 2024-11-29 02:19 +0042
                Re: terminal only for two weeks D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-11-29 10:38 +0100
                Re: terminal only for two weeks D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-11-29 22:39 +0100
          Re: terminal only for two weeks Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2024-11-26 17:57 -0400
            Re: terminal only for two weeks D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-11-27 10:54 +0100
              Re: terminal only for two weeks Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2024-11-28 01:41 -0400
                Re: terminal only for two weeks Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-11-28 06:42 +0000
                Re: terminal only for two weeks D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-11-28 10:56 +0100
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                Re: URIs within URIs: google.com/url?q= et al. Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2024-12-20 19:03 +0000
                Re: URIs within URIs: google.com/url?q= et al. Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2024-12-22 01:39 -0400
            Re: terminal only for two weeks Oregonian Haruspex <no_email@invalid.invalid> - 2024-12-04 06:11 +0000
              Re: terminal only for two weeks Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-12-04 06:42 +0000
                Re: terminal only for two weeks candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2024-12-04 14:30 +0000
                Re: terminal only for two weeks Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-12-05 01:46 +0000
                Re: terminal only for two weeks not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2024-12-08 07:52 +1000
                Re: terminal only for two weeks root <NoEMail@home.org> - 2024-12-08 14:11 +0000
                Re: terminal only for two weeks Bozo User <anthk@disroot.org> - 2025-01-12 23:01 +0000
                Re: terminal only for two weeks D <nospam@example.net> - 2025-01-13 10:46 +0100
                Re: terminal only for two weeks not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2025-01-14 06:52 +1000
                Re: terminal only for two weeks D <nospam@example.net> - 2025-01-14 18:54 +0100
                web Ivan Shmakov <ivan@siamics.netREMOVE.invalid> - 2025-01-16 07:55 +0000
                Re: web not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2025-01-17 07:10 +1000
                Re: web yeti <yeti@tilde.institute> - 2025-01-17 04:58 +0042
                Re: web Ivan Shmakov <ivan@siamics.netREMOVE.invalid> - 2025-01-18 14:05 +0000
                Re: web not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2025-01-19 09:09 +1000
                Re: web candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2025-01-29 20:10 +0000
                Re: web Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-02-04 21:42 +0000
                Re: web Ben Collver <bencollver@tilde.pink> - 2025-01-19 14:47 +0000
                Re: web yeti <yeti@tilde.institute> - 2025-01-19 16:14 +0042
                Re: web snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe) - 2025-01-19 16:05 +0000
                Re: web Ivan Shmakov <ivan@siamics.netREMOVE.invalid> - 2025-01-19 19:15 +0000
                Re: web Ben Collver <bencollver@tilde.pink> - 2025-01-20 15:37 +0000
                Re: web Ivan Shmakov <ivan@siamics.netREMOVE.invalid> - 2025-01-24 18:45 +0000
                Re: web news@zzo38computer.org.invalid - 2025-01-20 11:23 -0800
                Re: web Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com> - 2025-01-16 18:04 -0800
                Re: terminal only for two weeks Bozo User <anthk@disroot.org> - 2025-01-12 23:01 +0000
                Re: terminal only for two weeks yeti <yeti@tilde.institute> - 2024-12-05 06:34 +0042
                Re: terminal only for two weeks yeti <yeti@tilde.institute> - 2025-01-16 11:42 +0042
  Re: terminal only for two weeks Anssi Saari <anssi.saari@usenet.mail.kapsi.fi> - 2024-11-28 12:45 +0200
  Re: terminal only for two weeks Bozo User <anthk@disroot.org> - 2025-01-12 23:01 +0000
    Re: terminal only for two weeks Salvador Mirzo <smirzo@example.com> - 2025-01-12 22:03 -0300
      Re: terminal only for two weeks D <nospam@example.net> - 2025-01-13 10:48 +0100
        Re: terminal only for two weeks Salvador Mirzo <smirzo@example.com> - 2025-01-13 16:24 -0300
          Re: terminal only for two weeks D <nospam@example.net> - 2025-01-14 18:50 +0100
          Re: terminal only for two weeks Salvador Mirzo <smirzo@example.com> - 2025-01-15 22:10 -0300
            Re: terminal only for two weeks Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2025-01-16 04:15 +0000
            Re: terminal only for two weeks Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> - 2025-01-16 15:58 +1000
            Re: terminal only for two weeks Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-01-21 05:31 +0000
            Re: terminal only for two weeks Ivan Shmakov <ivan@siamics.netREMOVE.invalid> - 2025-01-23 19:33 +0000
              Re: terminal only for two weeks Salvador Mirzo <smirzo@example.com> - 2025-02-12 13:12 -0300
                Re: terminal only for two weeks Jerry Peters <jerry@example.invalid> - 2025-02-16 20:55 +0000
                Re: terminal only for two weeks Salvador Mirzo <smirzo@example.com> - 2025-02-16 22:54 -0300
                Re: terminal only for two weeks Salvador Mirzo <smirzo@example.com> - 2025-02-16 22:56 -0300
                Re: terminal only for two weeks Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-02-17 03:41 +0000
                Re: terminal only for two weeks Salvador Mirzo <smirzo@example.com> - 2025-02-19 13:02 -0300
                Re: terminal only for two weeks kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2025-02-17 22:18 +0000
                Re: terminal only for two weeks Salvador Mirzo <smirzo@example.com> - 2025-02-19 13:03 -0300

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