Re: Re: Re: How to replicate old LPD filter functionality?

Anonymous wrote:
> Anonymous wrote:
> > Anonymous wrote:
> >  
> > > After I upgraded to CUPS (which wiped out my /etc/printcap...grrr),
> > 
> > This is in the README file and the installation hints. *If* you chose
> > to install CUPS with the help of the "portable" package
> 
> I installed Samba

Samba? CUPS? Samba? CUPS?

> as a remote package (under FreeBSD) which requires
> CUPS as a dependency.  That toasted my old printcap with no backup. 

CUPS doesn't need a printcap...

And backups are for fainthearts. Fainthearts do their *own* backups. 
Fainthearts don't trust on (unknown to them) software packages to do 
it for them.

> (Well, I have a weekly backup I can pull from, but if CUPS is the way
> of the future, I'd rather make my application work with it).

???