PRINTING: Who wants to do it right?

[terry@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Terry Lambert)]

Seems there have been a lot of questions on printing lately.

Printing is like the weather; everyone complains, but no one does
anything about it.  I don't know of one system that has what I would
call "a good print system".  The closest thing is the Palladium
code out of project Athena, which is currently undergoing POSIX
standardization, and even that's broken, since it doesn't standardize
and then rely on a more generic queueing mechanism.

Anyone want to put together a generic queue management system (maybe
even ala VMS)?

And then cram Palladium on top of it?

The benefit will be honest-to-God print API's usable by programs, and
a soloution to the input filtering/output filtering problem.

Alternative suggestions are welcome...


					Terry Lambert
					terry@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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