Lew Pitcher wrote:

> I'm looking for instructions to configure Cups on a system where the
> only 'configuration' tools available are commandline tools; a web
> browser isn't out of the question, but won't be possible in some of the
> circumstances I forsee having to install under.

uhmm, just because your cups server doesn't have a web browser, doesn't mean
you can't use http://your-cups-server:631 from a client machine [of course
cupsd.conf would have to be adjusted to allow connections from your client]

> And, the linuxpackages documentation just recommends
> using a web browser (again, not possible in my circumstances).

out of curiosity, what are your circumstances?

> So, I ask again, can anyone here point me at a _simple_ CUPS
> configuration howto document? Something aimed at _hand-configuration_ of
> CUPS, but without the volume of the CUPS Software Administrators Manual?

most likely not. you either go the easy way: web interface, kde's own config
tools, or you have to dive in the documentation to find out 1001 uses of
lpadmin command. then again, you can always ask the folks that know it
best: www.cups.org, their mailing lists, maybe a news group.