On 2015-05-26 09:01, Felix Miata wrote:
Mailing lists have been so low in volume I've wondered if it's the USA holiday, broken internet, a fluke, or something else. I'm a subscriber to over 70 mailing lists. Mondays are usually the busiest day of the week, typically well over 500 inbound. This one was no more than half normal for a Monday, across the board.
Because of this: <opensuse@lists4.opensuse.org>: Command died with status 1: "/usr/bin/mlmmj-recieve -L /var/spool/mlmmj/opensuse/" It started happening yesterday at 15:37 UTC. And mailing the owner also bounced. At midnight, I tried again. I wrote two posts, one came trough in five minutes, the other disappeared silently.
I only bought it because right on the box it had "Linux" in its supported OS list. Little idea did I have what that really meant - never again Canon.
Same here. The hardware is reasonably good, but the not supported by the community is terrible. Some items have been reverse engineered, some half work.
Anyone own a laser Brother MF of any type, and know if it, or any Brothers, support the Epson 9-pin (FX, IIRC) printer language, as Brothers of yore (all?/mostly?) did. Something no HP ever did AFAIK, and AFAIK no Canon ever did, was support the printer language I learned when Lotus 1-2-3 was at v1.0. I still have spreadsheets with embedded printer codes.
My old Canon BJC 4000 did. In fact, we installed that a lot for clients because it supported the old ESC codes for 9 pin graphics. We sold some MsDos software (in basic!) and we were not keen on re-developing it all because of the printer. I don't know if they still make any model from that series. If you use software that prints using that mode directly, Linux support is irrelevant, but that printer is supported well by TurboPrint, a commercial setup that sells cups compatible drivers for a number of printers. And not expensive. What was terribly expensive was the ink cartridges.
I would *like* to be able to print some of them on occasion without having to dig an Epson-supported parallel port dot matrix printer out of the cobwebs, rejuvenate its ribbon, boot DOS, and wait 10 minutes per page in order to get pseudo-satisfactory printer output of the plain text, plus Epson printer control codes (font selection, margin, page length, etc.), that they contain.
Mmm. Can't you choose another driver in that old software? Many of that supported the original hp laserjet, which did postscript if I remember right; so a modern printer would do. Or view in Linux with several programs, then print to anything. On some old MsDos software I told it to print to a plotter file. You know, those things with moving pens. I had a translator from plotter language to several printers.
Converting the spreadsheet themselves is not a practical option, because they are Quattro Pro for DOS native format,
That thing should have printer drivers. I used it a bit. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)