From owner-freebsd-current Mon Feb 15 05:32:24 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA04244 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 15 Feb 1999 05:32:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA04237 for ; Mon, 15 Feb 1999 05:32:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) id WAA25711; Mon, 15 Feb 1999 22:31:56 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <36C803DF.E85AB8B4@newsguy.com> Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 20:24:15 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chuck Robey CC: Nicolas Souchu , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New print interface References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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