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Xref: sserve comp.org.usenix:3273 comp.unix.bsd:11576 comp.org.sug:657 comp.os.386bsd.misc:53 Newsgroups: comp.org.usenix,comp.unix.bsd,comp.org.sug,comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!ra!tantalus.nrl.navy.mil!eric From: eric@tantalus.nrl.navy.mil (Eric Youngdale) Subject: Re: How to vote on POSIX Printing Message-ID: <C387GK.Bwz@ra.nrl.navy.mil> Sender: usenet@ra.nrl.navy.mil Organization: Naval Research Laboratory References: <C36JrI.E8K@ra.nrl.navy.mil> Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1993 19:57:56 GMT Lines: 22 In article <C36JrI.E8K@ra.nrl.navy.mil> atkinson@itd.nrl.navy.mil (Randall Atkinson) writes: > I'd like to encourage all (especially folks who USE printing on a >UNIX system) to join the balloting group and carefully vote on the >ballot. If you look it over and want to junk all of the existing >practice that we know works reasonably well, then vote in favour of >the standard. If, however, you agree with those of us who believe in >standardising existing practice that works reasonably well, you can >vote no and provide comments on why you think that Palladium should be >dropped in favour of lp/lpr/lprm/cancel/lpq/lpstat/lpadmin. Well, I am going to vote, but the existing system on SVr4 does not work well at all IMHO. About two weeks ago I tried to connect a postscript printer to a Dell running SVr4, and there are screwy bugs in the stuff that result in a 2pph (page-per-hour) throughput. I connected it to a VAX running VMS and had it up in a matter of minutes. Bleah! Even if the bug were fixed, the whole thing seems like a massive kluge from front to back. -Eric -- "When Grigor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin." -F. Kafka