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From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C)
Subject: Re: How to vote on POSIX Printing
Message-ID: <1993Mar9.183158.7265@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
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Date: Tue, 9 Mar 93 18:31:58 GMT
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In article <C37x6s.88x@ra.nrl.navy.mil> atkinson@itd.nrl.navy.mil (Randall Atkinson) writes:
>
> Palladium, as per the specification in the POSIX Mock Ballot which I
>looked at and tried to comment on, does NOT conform to the BSD lpr
>commands (in fact it excluded both System V and BSD flavoured
>commands). Moreover, it has a lot of crufty API bindings.
Crufty API's are better than >*no*< API's.
> Join the POSIX ballot group, and if you look at the POSIX proposal
>and think that it will work fine, then vote yes. If you look at it
>and see problems, then object in a specific way so problems can get
>fixed before this becomes standard and is forced upon us.
This is a much more reasonable request, since I certainly don't think
that Palladium is the be-all end-all of printing; I just think I'd
finally like some API's that let me pick a printer based on some criteria
and then print on it from *inside* a program without scads of shell
scripts and printer environment variables. Asking the print system
which printers support postscript seems the best way to get postscript
to me, since it requires much less knowledge of the system on the part
of the end user.
I heartily endorse people taking Randall up on this particular suggestion,
since it lacks the political bias of his other posts.
Terry Lambert
terry@icarus.weber.edu
terry_lambert@novell.com
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or previous employers.
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