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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer,comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Subject: Re: Why you should get everything in writing (long)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.220808.3687@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 8 Jan 93 22:08:08 GMT
- References: <1ii7alINNon4@controversy.math.lsa.umich.edu> <1993Jan7.220154.446@fcom.cc.utah.edu> <1993Jan8.125232.5777@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE>
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- In article <1993Jan8.125232.5777@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE> rommel@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Kai-Uwe Rommel) writes:
- >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, I was thinking the very same thing. It would certainly be a heck
- of a lot easier, wouldn't it?
-
- (In a nutshell, you'd drop in the GhostScript code, put the queue
- processor wrapper around it, and let it act as an intermediary between
- the applications which are doing the printing and the device-specific
- print drivers.)
-
- You could also do it as a device monitor (a la LPRMON in TCP/IP), but
- I don't recommend it.
-
- Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the queue processor programming
- is rather straightforward and well documented, no? Or am I missing
- something?
-
- I obviously hope this matter can be resolved to everyone's
- satisfaction, and that such incidents occur rarely, if at all, in the
- future.
-
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