Jacob Luna Lundberg wrote:

>> Speaking as a Linux _USER_, if this happens, can I get said print
>> engine working on my ARM machines with these closed source drivers?
>> Can Alpha users get this print system working?  Can Sparc uses
>> get it working?  What?  I can't?  They can't?  Well, its no good to
>> me nor them.  You've just made the system x86 specific.  Well done,
>> thats a step backwards, not forwards.
> 
> 
> Just out of curiosity, why can't the specification be along the lines of a
> vendor data file saying ``if you want the printer to do x then say y'' and
> ``if the printer says x then it means y''.  That ought to add a lot of
> functionality right there.  Sure there are evil winprinters that this
> wouldn't be enough for but it would be hardware independant, yes?

isn't that what windows *.INF files do?
(don't flame me  I'm not sure about it)

-b

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