Re: Thinking about upgrading to Solaris 10

From: Richard B. Gilbert (rgilbert88_at_comcast.net)
Date: 01/23/05 

Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 10:12:58 -0500

Dave Uhring wrote:

>On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 00:38:37 -0500, Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
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>>Because I want to run applications which, AFAIK, run only under Windoze:
>>Quicken, TurboTax, Family Tree Maker, Word Perfect, Lotus 123, and
>>Street Atlas USA.
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>There are UNIX compatible apps which can replace some of those apps, not
>all -- yet.
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>>Because, in spite of its many flaws, many things "just work" under
>>Windoze; e.g. support for HP printers. Getting Solaris X86 to print to
>>an HP printer without stairstepping was a nightmare!
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>In over 5 years of using Solaris for my print server I have never had that
>problem. A trivial input print filter would have solved the problem in a
>few minutes.
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I'm sure the trivial input filter would have solved the problem if I had
been able to find one or known how to write one. I found virtually
nothing in Sun's documentation to guide me! What I did find didn't
help or didn't work. HP laser printers are everywhere. If Solaris
supplies anything in the way of support for them, it's practically
invisible. I suspect that any printer that required both a carriage
return and a linefeed for each line (I think that's most printers) would
have presented similar problems.

The solutions are probably obvious to the experienced sysadmin. To the
newbie, it not obvious how to do it nor is it obvioius how to find out,
other than to find someone who knows and ask him! I tried asking and
was told about a filter called something like "unix-to-dos". Someone
else promptly denounced that recommendation as an abomination! The
docmentation tells you to install a filter but nothing about which
filters are available, if any, and nothing about writing a filter.

 Installing and configuring printers is one of the areas where Windoze
is clearly superior!
 

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