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Date: Fri,  7 Sep 2007 12:17:43 +0200
From: "Francisco J Ballesteros" <nemo@lsub.org>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Ideas for an printer filesystem
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The fs does not issue the print command until the descriptor being
used to update
file contents is closed.

And yes, on Plan 9, lp is used. On macosx, lpr.


On 9/7/07, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
> > 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
>
>