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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!swing.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!news.cyberstore.ca!van-bc!unixg.ubc.ca!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!portal.ca!portal.ca!not-for-mail From: curt@portal.ca (Curt Sampson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: Why does unix printer support suck? Date: 30 Oct 1995 19:51:10 -0800 Organization: Internet Portal Services, Ltd. Lines: 25 Message-ID: <4746fe$do9@cynic.portal.ca> References: <5h3fcbx8xt.fsf@grail.cba.csuohio.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: cynic.portal.ca In article <5h3fcbx8xt.fsf@grail.cba.csuohio.edu>, jason baker <jabaker@grail-cba-csuohio.edu> wrote: >I was >amazed that this software still lacks basic features, like the ability >to back up a job some number of pages, `Backing up' a certain number of pages in a PCL5 or a Postscript file is a decidely non-trivial task. This is why no OS in the world that I know of does it. Just regenerate the necessary pages in the program that produced them. >or actually tell someone if the >printer is stopped (rather than let the device driver write a message >to the syslog and hope for the best). Syslogd has a generalised mechanism for doing just this. Read the manual page for syslog.conf. cjs -- Curt Sampson curt@portal.ca Info at http://www.portal.ca/ Internet Portal Services, Inc. Vancouver, BC (604) 257-9400 De gustibus, aut bene aut nihil.