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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.



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