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Replacement Printer - compatibility
Post 302648873 by Royalist on Wednesday 30th of May 2012 01:22:15 PM
05-30-2012
Replacement Printer - compatibility
My printer is due to be retired and I plan to replace it with a wireless printer which I want to share, at present, between two computers.
I'm running a very small home network comprised of a dual boot Desktop containing two HDDs one for Windows XP Professional and the other currently Ubuntu 11.10 and a Netbook which also runs with Ubuntu 11.10 OS.
The Desktop is hard wired to an 802.11n compatible BT Home Hub by LAN cable. The Netbook has an 802.11n built in capability.
The current printer is an HP Photosmart 7450. This cannot be accessed by the Netbook as HP do not have a compatible driver for that particular printer.
Please can anybody help me to avoid the trap of buying a printer which will not recognise both OS's? It seems that all printer makers do not include Linux OSs in their system requirements, presumably because there is such a wide disparity of distos. If I choose a wireless printer that is Windows, Mac and network compatible, will that be safe?
I'm running a very small home network comprised of a dual boot Desktop containing two HDDs one for Windows XP Professional and the other currently Ubuntu 11.10 and a Netbook which also runs with Ubuntu 11.10 OS.
The Desktop is hard wired to an 802.11n compatible BT Home Hub by LAN cable. The Netbook has an 802.11n built in capability.
The current printer is an HP Photosmart 7450. This cannot be accessed by the Netbook as HP do not have a compatible driver for that particular printer.
Please can anybody help me to avoid the trap of buying a printer which will not recognise both OS's? It seems that all printer makers do not include Linux OSs in their system requirements, presumably because there is such a wide disparity of distos. If I choose a wireless printer that is Windows, Mac and network compatible, will that be safe?
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truncate
TRUNCATE(1) User Commands TRUNCATE(1) NAME
truncate - shrink or extend the size of a file to the specified size SYNOPSIS
truncate OPTION... FILE... DESCRIPTION
Shrink or extend the size of each FILE to the specified size A FILE argument that does not exist is created. If a FILE is larger than the specified size, the extra data is lost. If a FILE is shorter, it is extended and the extended part (hole) reads as zero bytes. Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too. -c, --no-create do not create any files -o, --io-blocks treat SIZE as number of IO blocks instead of bytes -r, --reference=FILE use this FILE's size -s, --size=SIZE use this SIZE --help display this help and exit --version output version information and exit SIZE may be (or may be an integer optionally followed by) one of following: KB 1000, K 1024, MB 1000*1000, M 1024*1024, and so on for G, T, P, E, Z, Y. SIZE may also be prefixed by one of the following modifying characters: `+' extend by, `-' reduce by, `<' at most, `>' at least, `/' round down to multiple of, `%' round up to multiple of. Note that the -r and -s options are mutually exclusive. AUTHOR
Written by Padraig Brady. REPORTING BUGS
Report truncate bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/> Report truncate translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/> COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. SEE ALSO
dd(1), truncate(2), ftruncate(2) The full documentation for truncate is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and truncate programs are properly installed at your site, the command info coreutils 'truncate invocation' should give you access to the complete manual. GNU coreutils 8.5 February 2011 TRUNCATE(1)