Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 20:24:15 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@mat.net> Cc: Nicolas Souchu <nsouch@teaser.fr>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New print interface Message-ID: <36C803DF.E85AB8B4@newsguy.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902141309290.340-100000@picnic.mat.net>
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Chuck Robey wrote: > > If IO is generic, then printing the type of printer it finds is > meaningless, right? It's going to announce "generic" no matter what, > then it should stay silent, right? Better to say nothing than to get it > wrong every time, especially with the correct info sitting mere lines > above, advertising the mistake. This would be like not showing the ide cd-rom drive manufacturer/model. They are all "atapi", sure, but it is nice to know what it call itself. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org Well, as a computer geek, I have to believe in the binary universe. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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