On Sat, 10 Nov 2007 21:42:52 -0800, Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Also, do we really need *any* printing system as priority: standard?
> It's not clear to me that printing is still really part of a standard
> Unix installation, even for desktop users (and it definitely isn't for
> servers).
Way back when, “standard” was defined as stuff that an old UNIX
hand would say “WTF happened to that?” if it is not present on a
default install. While I am unsure of this definition of standard still
holds, but as an old UNIX hand I can say that if I am on a UNIX like
machine, and I can't just say lpr foo.txt and have it printed on the
default printer, I would find the system deficient and un-UNIX like.
How the printing occurs is not significant, as long as it can.
manoj
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Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.debian.org/~srivasta/>
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