From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 2 15:50:58 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from vortex.wa4phy.net (cc449817-a.mrtnz1.ga.home.com [24.12.79.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0C2237B41E for ; Wed, 2 Jan 2002 15:50:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from vortex.wa4phy.net (localhost.wa4phy.net [127.0.0.1]) by vortex.wa4phy.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g02NooC63785 for ; Wed, 2 Jan 2002 18:50:51 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from sam@wa4phy.net) Message-ID: <3C339CDA.C74F940A@vortex.wa4phy.net> Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2002 18:50:50 -0500 From: Sam Drinkard Organization: You Gotta Be Kiddin! X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.5-PRERELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en, ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Printing Question Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Having been indoctrinated to Unix some good many years ago with SysV (Interactive 2.01), I have over the years wondered *WHY*, if in a modern environment the print language of Unix has not changed from postscript to PCL, or other language common to today's printers. Granted, the print converters and postscript interpreters are pretty good, it would appear to me that maybe with all the gui changes that have occured to both *BSD and Linux, there should be native support for these printers.. (Ever try to find an inexpensive PS printer nowdays?) Just a wild thought.. anybody care to share your thoughts? Sam To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message