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thinking of changing the name to 'mocp.uci'

Considering the application's name is MOC, i don't see how it would be too generic. Using the command name doesn't seem like it would make it any more useful or descriptive (unless there is another program called moc out there?)

Makes sense.
I should continue with 'moc.uci'.
Thanks mikshaw.

Now posted:
rtorrent.uci v 0.7.7

Thanks goes to J.S.

Hello all,
regarding 'mplayer.uci' and friends:
- 'mplayer.uci' [2.2M] is ready (latest SVN) + some changes (see below)
- Would like to rename codecs according to group; request to take down 'codecpak-lite.tar.gz' and 'codecpak.uci'; to be replaced with 'codecs-qtx.uci' [2.1M], 'codecs-real.tar.gz' [160K], 'codecs-win32.uci' [4.2M], and 'codecs-wmp.uci' [1.9M].
So we have these directories:

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/opt/codecs-qtx/
/opt/codecs-real/
/opt/codecs-win32/
/opt/codecs-wmp/

And we also have symlinks in '/opt/mplayer/lib/codecs/' pointing to the codecs in these separate directories.

What does everyone think?
Thanks.

I didn't see any feedback in this thread for the hplip extensions in testing - but in continued use, I found a few issues I didn't spot earlier:

1. Printing - no additional issues found other than I'm still struggling to share printers with windows machines.

2. Faxing - I discovered hplip does not support fax on my OfficeJet G85 and there are "issues" (dixit hplip-help mailing list) with the fax support of an OfficeJet K80 I have occasional access to - this has made it difficult for me to test the faxing functionality of hplip.

I did find that hplip required the python readline.so extension in order to set up a fax as a cups printer - I couldn't compile the extension, but the one available in the python2.3 deb seems to work:

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$ sudo hp-setup -i --type=fax --fax=OfficeJetK80FaxTest

Note that regardless of whether /opt/python-2.3/bin is in the path, the only way make this work as root is to symlink python to /usr/bin (the hp-* commands work fine without the symlink as user dsl). It is also necessary to copy HP-Fax-hplip.ppd.gz from /opt/ppd/HP to /usr/share/cups/model otherwise hp-setup will not find it.

It is possible to add a fax to cups directly, but the fax uri does not appear in the drop-down box. I managed to do this by chosing another device (eg "printer on USB #1") and then editing /etc/cups/printers.conf to add the correct uri.

All this notwithstanding, when I try to send a test page to the fax, cups gives the error "/opt/hplip/lib/cups/backend/hpfax failed" - perhaps this is the "issue" with the K80 and other faxes might work?

3. Scanning - I neglected to mention in the info file that /etc/sane.d/dll.conf needs to be added to the backup in order for scanning to work. In addition, there was a problem with the _imaging.so extension in hplip_site-packages that prevented hp-scan from working. I have recompiled it and things seem fine now:

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$ hp-scan -dhpaio:/usb/OfficeJet_K80?serial=ES0911401VOH -n -r75 --size=a4 -ftest.jpg
$ scanimage --format=tiff > test.tiff

I'll test a while longer and then submit the revised extensions & info files.

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