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- From: rommel@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Kai-Uwe Rommel)
- Subject: Re: Why you should get everything in writing (long)
- References: <1993Jan7.192103.16828@netcom.com> <1ii7alINNon4@controversy.math.lsa.umich.edu> <1993Jan7.220154.446@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
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- Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 12:52:32 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.125232.5777@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE>
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- In article <1993Jan7.220154.446@fcom.cc.utah.edu> brian@jaguar.cs.utah.edu (Brian Sturgill) writes:
- >In article <1ii7alINNon4@controversy.math.lsa.umich.edu> spexet@math.lsa.umich.edu (D. Robert Spexet II) writes:
- >>In article <1993Jan7.192103.16828@netcom.com> rcain@netcom.com (Robert Cain) writes:
- >>>I joined the Developers Assistance Program and through that arm
- >>>obtained a verbal assurance that there would be "no problem" obtaining
- >>>said source code since there was nothing proprietary. Based on this
- >>>assurance and the license I had negotiated for using the interpreter I
- >>>quit my day job to live off my savings and develop this product which I
- >>>was going to call SimpleScript.
- >
- >I think you misunderstand Bob's problem. All he wanted was a sample printer
- >driver. IBM should have had this available well before OS/2 2.0 GA shipped.
- >The point is that they didn't, and they still don't.
- >I would agree with you comment if Bob had wanted something unusual from
- >IBM, but this is standard stuff.
-
- A bit off topic (but more related to this group), wouldn't it be better
- to integrate a PostScript to <whatever printer> converter into a queue
- processor and use it with the normal PSCRIPT driver? Isn't the queue
- processor the part which gets the PS from the spool file (the PSCRIPT
- driver puts it there) and sends it to the port?
-
- Kai Uwe Rommel
-
- /* Kai Uwe Rommel --- rommel@informatik.tu-muenchen.de */
-
- DOS ... is still a real mode only non-reentrant interrupt
- handler, and always will be. -Russell Williams
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