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To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] lp doesn't work after upgrade from downloaded cd image
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 08 Oct 2002 12:01:53 EDT."
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From: Dan Cross <cross@math.psu.edu>
Date: Wed,  9 Oct 2002 12:39:39 -0400
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> 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.