From: Anant Narayanan <anant@kix.in>
To: weigelt@metux.de,
Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Ideas for an printer filesystem
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 22:16:46 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <68631093-437F-4904-A7CB-8ADB71B3A580@kix.in> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071130123249.GB14203@nibiru.local>
> Only copying one file is not enough, otherwise you have no chance
> for giving additional parameters like colorspace, orientation,
> resolution, etc, etc, etc. The application would have to handle all
> this by itself and would require more detailed information about the
> printer (which would tie the job to one specific printer).
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-30 16:46 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 [this message]
2007-11-30 22:40 ` Lucas James
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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