Where do I ask for a new printer utility?

[vlok stone]

Since you're using Mandrake 
try here  
http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/hardware/hcups10.html#noduplextip
or 
http://www.mssl.ucl.ac.uk/www_computing/buns/unix_printing.html


--- Asheville Joe <josephj at main.nc.us> wrote:
> Hi.  I could really use a utility that does
> essentially what xpp does, 
> but is callable from a script such as bash.  As far
> as I know, one does 
> not exist and after taking a look at the 26 pages of
> code behind xpp, I 
> was quickly convinced that I wasn't going to write
> it myself!
> 
> Is there somewhere appropriate where I could post a
> request for what I want?
> 
> All I actually want to do is emulate double sided
> printing on my printer 
> the way Windoze does.  I can do it now manually with
> xpp, but it's very 
> cumbersome and error prone.  It seems to me that a
> duplex printing 
> emulator is something a large number of users would
> appreciate having.  
> It is definitely a desktop application as opposed to
> a server 
> application, but Linux on the desktop is an
> objective for many in the 
> open software community.
> 
> As far as I can tell, all it requires (aside from
> the normal hassle of 
> parsing command line parameters and error checking)
> is a bunch of calls 
> to CUPS.  That's a bit more than I can figure out at
> this point, but for 
> someone who knows what they're doing, it's
> conceptually simple.
> 
> In fact, if I could just fake console input to xpp,
> it would be ugly, 
> but it would work as long as I could wait for the
> first xpp to finish 
> (and for me to flip the paper around) before running
> the second xpp to 
> print the other sides.  Then, the only outstanding
> issue would be 
> figuring out if there was an odd number of total
> pages so I could print 
> a blank page at the end to eject the last sheet.
> 
> Arer there any keyboard/mouse "macro" automation
> tools that could do 
> this?  I know they have existed as far back as CP/M
> and MSDOS and have 
> even seen (but not used) some for Windoze.  Software
> testers like these 
> things so thay can do the same sequence of events
> over and over until 
> they get it right.
> 
> I put a message on linuxprinting.org and got several
> helpful responses 
> from Till Kamppeter (the author of xpp), but no help
> with emulating.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
> Joe
> 


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