[KLUG Members] printing and Linux

[Marr]

On Tuesday 25 October 2005 09:04am, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> > There doesn't seem to be a man page for 'cups' or 'CUPS'
>
> AFAIK, the CUPS docs are only in HTML & PDF.  http://www.cups.org

For an easier way to access the CUPS documentation, just point your web 
browser here (while the 'cupsd' daemon is running, of course):

   http://localhost:631

Then click the 'On-Line Help' link.

Despite the possibly-misleading name, you do _not_ need an Internet connection 
for this. It's 'on-line' in the sense that it's "non-printed" documentation.

Here's what you should see:

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Documentation

The following documentation for CUPS is available on this server: 

  Whitepaper - An Overview of the Common UNIX Printing System ( HTML | PDF ) 
  Software Users Manual ( HTML | PDF ) 
  Software Administrators Manual ( HTML | PDF ) 
  Software Programmers Manual ( HTML | PDF ) 
  Configuration Management Plan ( HTML | PDF ) 
  CUPS Implementation of IPP ( HTML | PDF ) 
  Interface Design Description ( HTML | PDF ) 
  Software Design Description ( HTML | PDF ) 
  Software Performance Specification ( HTML | PDF ) 
  Software Security Report ( HTML | PDF ) 
  Software Translation Guide ( HTML | PDF ) 
  Software Test Plan ( HTML | PDF ) 
  Software Version Description ( HTML | PDF ) 

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All those HTML and PDF links are clickable. On my system, the HTML ones all 
render correctly (again, _without_ an Internet connection), but the PDF links 
yield the error 'Not Found -- The requested resource was not found on this 
server.' -- YMMV.

These documents are very useful and quite thorough.

HTH....

Bill Marr