[gentoo-user] Where is magicfilterconfig?

[gentoo-user] Where is magicfilterconfig?

[Alessandro Selli]

  Hello,
	I installed magicfilter on a i386 machine because I was
confortable with it's use with LPRng under Debian.  I knew it came
with a configuration tool, magicfilterconfig, but that tool is
missing in my installation (from sources).  There does not seem to
be a separate package with it.  So, where is it?  If it's no
longer part of the magicfilter package, what can I use
(documentation?) to generate a working printcap file?


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Re: [gentoo-user] Where is magicfilterconfig?

[A. Khattri]

On Tue, 26 Jul 2005, Alessandro Selli wrote:

> 	I installed magicfilter on a i386 machine because I was
> confortable with it's use with LPRng under Debian.  I knew it came
> with a configuration tool, magicfilterconfig, but that tool is
> missing in my installation (from sources).  There does not seem to
> be a separate package with it.  So, where is it?  If it's no
> longer part of the magicfilter package, what can I use
> (documentation?) to generate a working printcap file?

You should really have esearch or eix installed (or at least use "emerge
-S"):

$ eix magicfilter
* net-print/magicfilter
     Available versions:  1.2-r4 2.3a ~2.3d
     Installed:           no
     Homepage:            http://www.pell.portland.or.us/~orc/Code/magicfilter/
     Description:         Customizable, extensible automatic printer filter


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Re: [gentoo-user] Where is magicfilterconfig?

[Alessandro Selli]

A. Khattri wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Jul 2005, Alessandro Selli wrote:
> 
> 
>>	I installed magicfilter on a i386 machine because I was
>>confortable with it's use with LPRng under Debian.  I knew it came
>>with a configuration tool, magicfilterconfig, but that tool is
>>missing in my installation (from sources).  There does not seem to
>>be a separate package with it.  So, where is it?  If it's no
>>longer part of the magicfilter package, what can I use
>>(documentation?) to generate a working printcap file?
> 
> 
> You should really have esearch or eix installed (or at least use "emerge
> -S"):
> 
> $ eix magicfilter
> * net-print/magicfilter
>      Available versions:  1.2-r4 2.3a ~2.3d
>      Installed:           no
>      Homepage:            http://www.pell.portland.or.us/~orc/Code/magicfilter/
>      Description:         Customizable, extensible automatic printer filter
> 
> 

  Thank you for your hint.

  However, I realize the magicfilterconfig tool is Debian-specific,
since there is no trace of it in the official source code I just
downloaded from
http://www.pell.portland.or.us/~orc/Code/magicfilter/magicfilter-2.3.d.tar.gz

  I wish Gentoo too had it!


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Re: [gentoo-user] Where is magicfilterconfig?

[A. Khattri]

On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Alessandro Selli wrote:

>   However, I realize the magicfilterconfig tool is Debian-specific,
> since there is no trace of it in the official source code I just
> downloaded from
> http://www.pell.portland.or.us/~orc/Code/magicfilter/magicfilter-2.3.d.tar.gz
>
>   I wish Gentoo too had it!

Did you try emerging net-print/magicfilter?

The Changelog specifically mentioned magicfilterconfig so it might be in
there...


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Re: [gentoo-user] Where is magicfilterconfig?

[Alessandro Selli]

A. Khattri wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Alessandro Selli wrote:
>
>>  However, I realize the magicfilterconfig tool is Debian-specific,
>>since there is no trace of it in the official source code I just
>>downloaded from
>>http://www.pell.portland.or.us/~orc/Code/magicfilter/magicfilter-2.3.d.tar.gz
>>
>>  I wish Gentoo too had it!
>
> Did you try emerging net-print/magicfilter?
>
> The Changelog specifically mentioned magicfilterconfig so it might be in
> there...

   All right, I queried further and learned this about
magicfilter/magicfilterconfig:

1) until magicfilter version 1.2, magicfilter was developped by H. Peter
    Anvin, then David Parsons rewrote it from scratch and changed its
    licence from GPL to BSD:

	http://www.pell.portland.or.us/~orc/Code/magicfilter/

	History

	Magicfilter 2 is a complete rewrite of H. Peter Anvin's
	Magicfilter 1.2, using slightly more standard components.


2) magicfilter version 1.2 did have the magicfilterconfig tool standard:

http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/net-print/magicfilter/ChangeLog

	*magicfilter-1.2-r3 (26 Mar 2002)

	[...]

	  26 Mar 2002; Aron Griffis <agriffis@gentoo.org>
		magicfilter-1.2-r3.ebuild:

		Fixed magicfilterconfig man-page installation

3) magicfilter version 2.0 and later (David Parsons') no longer has it.

   I did ACCEPT_KEYWORDS='~x86' emerge magicfilter  to install the 
latest release (2.3d) but magicfilterconfig is not there.

   However, I did manage to get it to work.  I only had to change in the
/etc/lprng/printcap file the filter line from:

:if=/usr/etc/apsfilter/basedir/bin/apsfilter:\

into:

:if=/usr/share/magicfilter/filters/dj500:\

   *And* I had to correct the same filter file, because it erroneously
had two lines defining the gs output device to use, first the right one,
then a wrong one that would override the correct output device.  The
/usr/share/magicfilter/filters/dj500 file was thus changed from:

#!/usr/bin/magicfilter
define(Vendor, `Hewlett-Packard')dnl
define(Printer, `DeskJet 500 series B/W printers (and DJ500c with black 
cartridge)')dnl
define(DPI,`300')dnl
define(DEVICE,`djet500')dnl
define(PCL,`true')dnl
define(DEVICE,`cdjcolor')dnl
define(HANDLE_TEXT,`cat \eE\e&k2G\e(0N  \eE')dnl

into:

#!/usr/bin/magicfilter
define(Vendor, `Hewlett-Packard')dnl
define(Printer, `DeskJet 500 series B/W printers (and DJ500c with black 
cartridge)')dnl
define(DPI,`300')dnl
define(DEVICE,`djet500')dnl
define(PCL,`true')dnl
define(HANDLE_TEXT,`cat \eE\e&k2G\e(0N  \eE')dnl

   There's a glitch in the magicfilter(8) man page, too: where it reads:

        /etc/printcap  file  will simply be the name of the configuration
        file, which is set executable and starts with the line:

        #! /var/tmp/portage/magicfilter-2.3d/image//usr/bin/magicfilter

it should read:

        /etc/printcap  file  will simply be the name of the configuration
        file, which is set executable and starts with the line:

        #! /usr/bin/magicfilter


   I guess I should file a bug report, right?


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