From: Dan Cross <cross@math.psu.edu>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] lp doesn't work after upgrade from downloaded cd image
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 12:39:39 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200210091639.g99Gddi23532@augusta.math.psu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 08 Oct 2002 12:01:53 EDT." <348c65ca7e96040bd0a9c9db28c515c7@plan9.bell-labs.com>
> lp is a shell script. It's really not too hard to put echo statements
> into various places to figure out what's wrong, but the chain of
> scripts calling scripts is pretty daunting the first time you dig in.
> Half the time it's a new ghostscript that's broken something
> mysteriously.
I've sort of always wondered why lp wasn't implemented as a filesystem;
I'm guessing it's historical. The lp command could then just be a
wrapper around cat. Someone mentioned this once. It might've even
been Bushnell, but it was a good idea. Something else to do in my
copious spare time....
- Dan C.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-09 16:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-08 16:01 rob pike, esq.
2002-10-09 16:39 ` Dan Cross [this message]
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2002-10-09 16:45 rob pike, esq.
2002-10-08 18:52 Thomas West
2002-10-08 16:06 Russ Cox
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2002-10-08 15:58 ` Russ Cox
2002-10-08 16:08 ` Scott Schwartz
2002-10-08 13:36 Skip Tavakkolian
2002-10-08 12:57 Skip Tavakkolian
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