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From: dkeisen@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dave Eisen)
Subject: Re: IMPORTANT: POSIX threatens our use of lp/lpr and friends
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>So what *is* its concept and user interface? The debate about
>palladium seems a bit weak as (except one person) nobody in this group
>(comp.unix.bsd) seems to know how palladium really looks like and how
>it works.

And that's the problem I have with it. I had never heard of
Palladium until the first posting of this thread. The generally
very knowledgeable readership of comp.unix.bsd didn't know
much about it. Why is anyone considering putting something
none of us knows about into a standard? 



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