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From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] lp
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 16:12:59 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200110262013.f9QKD1d21742@new-york.lcs.mit.edu> (raw)

> It was written by Paul Glick and ran on both our Unix systems
> and Plan 9.  He didn't want to support 2 different versions.
> I agree that having it as a file system would have been a
> lot nicer.  Since all our printers are on the net, we still would
> have to deal with the network protocols but the interface would
> be a lot nicer for programs, just open a file and write into it.

It'd also be nice if all n^2 conversions didn't have to be coded.
Instead, you could specify a list of possible conversions and 
run a shortest path algorithm from what you have (say, troff)
to what you need (say, PCL for a BubbleJet).

Russ



             reply	other threads:[~2001-10-26 20:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-10-26 20:12 Russ Cox [this message]
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2001-10-29  5:16 Paul
2001-10-27  0:10 geoff
2001-10-26 22:21 Scott Schwartz
2001-10-26 20:07 presotto
2001-10-26 17:19 peh
2001-10-26 16:06 peh

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