In message <199801150037.QAA21127@andare.fugue.com>Ted Lemon writes
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>Hm.   Windoze has an API for printing.   So does the Mac.   Do you
>consider them improvements over opening a pipe to lpr?

Yeesh, this is getting far afield, but, yeah, I sure do.  Perhaps the
only thing that I *did* like about the small Windoze street mapping 
program I wrote was that I got printing (color printing, no less)
for free, with almost no extra programming effort.  TCL/Tk, someone
will no doubt remind me, can output PostScript in a similar fashion, 
but it ain't quite the same.

Apples and oranges, I know.

Kevin