Date: Tue, 3 Jan 95 10:57:55 MST From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: mcw@hpato.aus.hp.com, tpr@picspc01.pics.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: PRINTING: Who wants to do it right? Message-ID: <9501031757.AA05134@cs.weber.edu> In-Reply-To: <10207.789135256@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Jan 3, 95 04:14:16 am
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Seems there have been a lot of questions on printing lately. Printing is like the weather; everyone complains, but no one does anything about it. I don't know of one system that has what I would call "a good print system". The closest thing is the Palladium code out of project Athena, which is currently undergoing POSIX standardization, and even that's broken, since it doesn't standardize and then rely on a more generic queueing mechanism. Anyone want to put together a generic queue management system (maybe even ala VMS)? And then cram Palladium on top of it? The benefit will be honest-to-God print API's usable by programs, and a soloution to the input filtering/output filtering problem. Alternative suggestions are welcome... Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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