Lex Spoon wrote:
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> 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.
Agree. It needs to be solved at VM level because you don't want to know
about system/platform specific details.
> 
> 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?
Disagree. It needs to be solved at VM level because you don't want to know
about system/platform specific details.
> 

We need at least the feature to send a string to a printer. If there isn't
a printer available the output could be dumped into a file (like
sqPrint<id>.prt where <id> is date/time of printing and/or a number).

Reinier.