From: peh@us-celstream.com
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] lp
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 12:06:35 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200110271022.f9RAMNu19198@tuna.us-celstream.com> (raw)
'lp' doesn't seem very plan9-like. It looks
more like software which works on standard Unix
and was ported to Plan9. Has there been any effort
to integrate printing more into plan9?
An example would be spooling. Rather than sending
the files from one host to the next via the lp
protocol why not bind the directory of the printer
host onto a local directory and copy?
Another idea would be to hide the type of printer
(PostScript, PCL, bitmap) in a filesystem server
and have programs copy the data to a file, allowing
the filesystem server to convert the data as
necessary and perform the necessary communications
with the printer.
Anyway, just wondering.
Warm regards,
Pat
next reply other threads:[~2001-10-26 16:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-26 16:06 peh [this message]
2001-10-26 17:19 peh
2001-10-26 20:07 presotto
2001-10-26 20:12 Russ Cox
2001-10-26 22:21 Scott Schwartz
2001-10-27 0:10 geoff
2001-10-29 5:16 Paul
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