From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NgF1g-0002iE-3m for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 13 Feb 2010 10:15:00 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0B39CE05AF; Sat, 13 Feb 2010 10:14:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f216.google.com (mail-ew0-f216.google.com [209.85.219.216]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C546EE05AF for ; Sat, 13 Feb 2010 10:14:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy8 with SMTP id 8so3700742ewy.29 for ; Sat, 13 Feb 2010 02:14:22 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=gwg5HVq7ECSYH2OTjprXZJdofV9izzXRSONIhO/KGIA=; b=YoQGrZaSjIRtcm9bPDharItw2WlNHzoRu8E9QCaTQhzDEbzs142pHax/rCKi91LamC TUYl8LsLdatPCdWJVRbmsOTaS7PNXoYPL5EpTuCYRlpIduWYO65R43XiJ6DW4hlgOhnH QN5d88h5YWRogkgoOWjPhAQ654qPcFk6Cwco4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=Q0YwwFIwmILpAYjiyqlou4CwcETzbIo0ANsHsiLXwrf6esnhtG1MI6EGYDNGcGagZY akXrWlX9llmwr8AyzsVyjnnv3sRa4Ca5ASsEN4aYpl8ngNQAAHL2M6KNAaBYEWXplgaR kwY3NKYRqrW5DFSWDvhLiuj9b7+G05VUjIzus= Received: by 10.213.15.14 with SMTP id i14mr1901674eba.83.1266056062132; Sat, 13 Feb 2010 02:14:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-210-238-65.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.210.238.65]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 14sm2919278ewy.7.2010.02.13.02.14.20 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 13 Feb 2010 02:14:21 -0800 (PST) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files? Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2010 12:12:09 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.0 (Linux/2.6.32-zen6; KDE/4.4.0; x86_64; ; ) References: <20100208222047.GA6553@muc.de> <201002120126.28071.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <4B75AE2D.4030606@coolmail.se> In-Reply-To: <4B75AE2D.4030606@coolmail.se> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201002131212.09966.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 844db5fb-4800-404b-bf41-73bc8a0b398e X-Archives-Hash: d46f4ab9e9ca13f34dac5fe7936eda13 On Friday 12 February 2010 21:38:21 pk wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > 1. Say stuff it and build a print server into your app. We stopped doing > > that when DOS fell out of fashion. > > 2. Support all possible print systems. lpr anyone? > > 3. Or just use IPC and let dedicated print middleware deal with it. > > What's wrong with lpr? Not all lot wrong with it really. As long as you use printers from the era when lpr was written, it works just fine. Now go buy the kind of thing managers usually buy - some weird Chinese thing no-one has ever heard of rebranded as an Olivetti where PCL 5 is the only thing you realistically use to get it to print. Use lpr with that. Let us know how that works out for you. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com