From: Lucas James <Lucas.James@ldjcs.com.au>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Ideas for an printer filesystem
Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2007 09:40:39 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200712010940.39305.Lucas.James@ldjcs.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <68631093-437F-4904-A7CB-8ADB71B3A580@kix.in>
On Sat, 1 Dec 2007 03:46:46 Anant Narayanan wrote:
> How about simply:
>
> $ echo "print <printing-options> <printer-options>" > /printers/ctl
> $ cat myfile > /printers/data
>
> Skipping either the printing/printer options while writing to ctl
> will result in default options being applied.
>
> --
> Anant
That's only good for single machine/single user setup.
If you have more than one person/program trying to print to different
printers/options, you would get mixed results. Picture a second print job
starting in between the write to /printers/ctl and /printers/data, and you'll
see the difficulties in keeping it all together.
Lucas
--
Modern man is the missing link between apes and human beings.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-30 22:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-06 23:56 Enrico Weigelt
2007-09-07 8:44 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2007-09-07 10:08 ` erik quanstrom
2007-09-07 10:17 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2007-09-07 10:54 ` erik quanstrom
2007-11-30 7:19 ` Aki Nyrhinen
2007-11-30 3:37 ` Enrico Weigelt
2007-11-30 9:42 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2007-11-30 12:32 ` Enrico Weigelt
2007-11-30 13:06 ` Rodolfo =?unknown-8bit?Q?Garc=EDa?=
2007-11-30 13:38 ` Enrico Weigelt
2007-11-30 16:56 ` Rodolfo =?unknown-8bit?Q?Garc=EDa?=
2007-11-30 16:46 ` Anant Narayanan
2007-11-30 22:40 ` Lucas James [this message]
2007-12-01 4:42 ` ron minnich
2007-12-01 4:54 ` Bruce Ellis
2007-12-11 13:30 ` roger peppe
2007-12-11 20:36 ` Bruce Ellis
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