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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Ideas for an printer filesystem
Date: Fri,  7 Sep 2007 06:08:54 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8607d45190b8811e23dc5426d1fbf657@quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8ccc8ba40709070144y42f8c81andeb54dde4588f968@mail.gmail.com>

> The octopus is using just an empty directory as the printer spooler.
> (you may have as many as you want). When you start the fs you tell it the
> underlying printing command and options. Thus, a simple cp suffices to print.

how do you keep the printer from starting on a job too soon?

> There are not too many print queues/options in actual use here to make it
> unpleasant.

are you still using lp under the covers?

- erik



  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-07 10:08 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 [this message]
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
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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