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Re: Linux HW compatibility list 4 local products



Hi,

reading your mail made me wonder. i know about 3 more makers that make
exactly the same binary-compatible print mechanism. why do i know it?
since i'm also working as a PC technician. seems like hardware knowledge
is what you need here, not ampherical knowledge.

BTW - setting this up with ezmlm, rather than Majordomo, is much easier.

Shachar.

On Tue, 5 Aug 1997, Peter Lorand Peres wrote:

> 
> Ok, 
> 
> 	I have several Olivetti-engine based printers and I did write my
> own driver for them (crude, in C), to print PS and graphics from Linux.
> This was ok (without manuals and gprof sessions to make 1.1 MB files move
> through the printer cable) until a week ago I discovered that the driver
> for DEVICE=/deskjet works great with the printer.
> 
> 	Since this kind of @#$%% keeps happening I want to start a list of
> devices that can be relied upon as aliases of other devices in Linux
> setups. A file containing this should be placed on the ftp server of
> linux.org.il with a link wedged into the linux.org.il web page
> (somewhere).
> 
> 	Anyone having solid information about devices that operate well
> with Linux programs when those programs are set in a certain way should
> post an entry to the list. Someone would simply cat >> it to the list from
> time to time.
> 
> 	The entrys should only apply to devices which are NOT covered by
> manual pages, howtos or the Linux Hardware compat. list.
> 
> 	I propose the following LSM-style template for each entry (which
> is easy to parse using grep awk etc):
> 
> begin:
> date: <Entry date in format DDMMYYY>, days and moths numeric, pad with '0'.
> manuf: <Name of the maker, with NO decimal dots, as known inter-
> 	nationally, i.e. IBM not I.B.M., use name printed on packages>
> class: <one of PRINTER DISK ADAPTER MODEM KEYBOARD MONITOR OTHER>
> device: <Name of the product, commercial name>
> model: <Number of the product, catalog number, if available>
> like: <Name of the product, commercial name>
> like-model: <Number of the product, catalog number, if available>
> app: <Name of application or program as appears on a command line>
> app-ver: <version of app, optional>
> sd: <Setup description: max 10 lines of text describing the command line
> sd: arguments required to make the device: work with the app: whilst
> sd: emulating the device known as like:>
> URL: <optional URL of a document describing this further, one URL per
> URL: line>
> who: <name and email address of the uploader, email address in <>'s)
> end:
> 
> 	All the fields excepting the who and date fields should accept
> multiple lines (with the same header for each one). In the case of makes
> and models, a list and/or a range is acceptable.
> 
> 	For example in my case the entry would look like this:
> 
> BEGIN
> date:	050897
> class:	PRINTER
> manuf:	Olivetti
> model:	JP150 JP170
> manuf:	CITIZEN
> model:	ProJet 2
> app:	gs
> sd:	gs -dDEVICE=/deskjet
> sd:	These printers should be set up as HP deskjets under Ghostscript
> URL:	man gs
> URL:	Printing-HOWTO
> who:	Peter Lorand Peres <plp@actcom.co.il>
> END	
> 
> 	I believe that this is the kind of effort that will cost very
> little and bring very much. There are at least 3 different makers who make
> binary compatible printers (Citizen HP Olivetti and DEC) and no Linux user
> knows that because you can't find that kind of information anywhere. With
> this system, one could.
> 
> 	If the posters would be disciplined then the list would be
> searcheable by anyone looking forward to buy a Yoyodyne XYYS frobnicator.
> The discipline could be ensured by an entry proofreader such as the lsm
> robot. I'd volunteer to write one.
> 
> 	If this catches on then a copy of Majordomo could be hacked into
> running the robot when someone is posting and adding the entry to a
> ftp-able file instead of mailing it out (replace the list adder
> with another script and the command interpreter (subscribe/unsubscribe)
> with a checker that would mail the entry back if it does not pass
> linting. imho a registry number issued by Majordomo could be added to
> each entry to allow by-reference searches.).
> 
> 	Please send comments to the mailing list.
> 
> Peter Lorand Peres 
> ------------------
> plp@actcom.co.il 100310.2360 on CIS (please use Internet address for mail)
> http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/plp
> 
> "The creed of Inland Revenue is simple: 'If we can bring one litle smile to one 
> little face today - then somebody's screwed up somewhere' - David Frost
> 
> (Note: The above stands valid in all countries until proven wrong)
> 

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Shachar Tal
shachar@vipe.technion.ac.il
shachar@il.eu.org
"Now excuse me, i have some Daemons to fight"  -- Firkin
Hiroshima '45....... Tschernobyl '86......... Windows '95



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