squeak printing?

Alan Kay Alan.Kay at squeakland.org
Fri Feb 8 12:06:56 UTC 2002


OK, why isn't the print spooler a pseudofile?

Cheers,

Alan

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At 12:24 PM -0500 2/7/02, David T. Lewis wrote:
>On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 06:53:12AM -0800, Alan Kay wrote:
>>  Folks --
>>
>>  This has always flabbergasted me. Why isn't the standard print port
>>  on current day OS's represented at least by a pseudofile called
>>  "Print".
>
>It is.
>
>On a single user Unix system, it will be called something like
>'/dev/lp0'. On MSDOS, it's LP0: (I assume that still is the case for
>Windows). And so forth.
>
>>From the point of view of Squeak, print spooling systems do two
>useful things:
>
>1) Allow sharing the printer with other people, programs, or computers.
>
>2) Provide a convenient way to plug in a Postscript interpreter if
>your printer does not already have one.
>
>Dave


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