Two things.

First, it would be nice to have some sort of simplified plain text
printing system, in addition to postscript--this would be faster on
many systems (eg, mine :)) and would be nicer on VM developpers for
wierd platforms.

Second, there don't necessarily have to be dedicated primitives for
printing to work.  For instance, if there were some sort of system()
and/or popen() escape (as has been proposed previously), then Unix
users could just call lpr.  And currently, if one has a network
printer available, one should be able to print via sockets from ANY
platform.  But for some configurations (wimpy Windows 95 boxes maybe
:)), there would HAVE to be primitives added.  Or, can in fact those
wimpy Windows 95 boxes handle network printing via some sort of
standard protocol?



Lex





William A. Barnett-Lewis writes:
 > Hmm... I like the sound of this; especially as in the KSC archive, there
 > is some code (that my meager ST skills hasn't yet got to work) to print
 > out to a postscript file. Perhaps using that and talking to GS would be
 > a usable solution? 
 > 
 > William
 > 
 > Patrick Logan wrote:
 > > 
 > > > Seriously, I think we need to support printing from the VM (Yippee!
 > > > Platform independent printing).
 > > 
 > > Would a connection between Squeak and Ghostscript be a step in the
 > > right direction?
 > > 
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