Subject: Re: NetBSD master CVS tree commits
To: Ted Lemon <mellon@hoffman.vix.com>
From: Michael Graff <explorer@flame.org>
List: source-changes
Date: 01/14/1998 19:50:09
Ted Lemon <mellon@hoffman.vix.com> writes:
> Hm. Windoze has an API for printing. So does the Mac. Do you
> consider them improvements over opening a pipe to lpr?
Not entirely, but I _do_ think that if I used some other system than
lpr (for instance, the sysv "lp" stuff) I don't want to have to teach
programs about this.
It was a real PITA on SGI machines, where both Berkeley and sysv
printing was installed. Few programs knew which to use, and those which
guessed got it wrong about half the time.
--Michael