1. under Windows you can define a pseudo-printer-file: form that moment on
all your windows-programs think that it is one of the printers.

2. Under windows you have Redmon
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/redmon/index.htm
You use it to intercept (print)output from a program and redirect it to
another program.

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Bert Freudenberg [mailto:bert at isg.cs.uni-magdeburg.de]
Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 2:32 PM
To: squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
Subject: Re: squeak printing?


On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Alan Kay wrote:

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

IMHO, because it would be awkward to specify options for a pseudofile. 
Since on unix you can pipe the output of one program (your app) to the 
input of another program (the print spooler), it's as convenient as a 
pseudofile. You could in fact create a pseudofile ("named pipe") that 
looks like a file but connects to the spooler daemon.

-- Bert