[KLUG Members] Problems: CUPS, Kanji email

[Adam Williams]

>Hope these are not FAQ that I've missed but here they are:
>1. I'm trying to install CUPS on my BS7.2 system to allow me
>to do some decent color printing on my HP DJ670C.  I've installed
>CUPS and tried to install gimp-print which would give me the
>driver I want as I understand it, but no joy.  I cannot print
>at all now..... grrrr

I don't think there is any direct relation to GIMP print and CUPS.  One
is a spooler engine, the other is a driver suite.

There is some odd command used in RedHat to switch spoolers,  but off
hand I don't recall what it is. I'll see if I can dig it up.

>2. I have a Japanese teacher guest at my house who is teaching
>in my wife's middle school.  His English is improving and he
>has finally getting out of jet lag.  The problem now is that he
>wants to use his Japanese email system, somehow related to hotmail.
>I was able to download the appropriate tools on my wife's MS machine
>to allow MS Internet Explorer to allow him to read the kanji
>characters in his email but I've had now luck so far in letting 
>him read his kanji email on my LINUX system.  I even downloaded 
>AfterStep as a WM since one site implies that there is the possibility 
>to get a Japanese interface in afterstep, but I've not been able
>to find the right "plug-in"s or ...?  It seems that the accomodation 
>of Kanji (2-byte) characters in a browser for his email  would be 
>browser specific but I can't find a way to allow Netscape to read Kanji
>email.
>Any suggestions from all those veterans out there?

Hmmm.  Japanese characters appear all the time in my Galeon under GNOME,
and I didn't do anything.  Make sure you have the japanese fonts
installed,  I don't think they are included with BS-Ware if thats what
your using.