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From: pim@cti-software.nl (Pim Zandbergen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: 386ix and Parallel Printers
Message-ID: <1990May7.134227.796@cti-software.nl>
Date: 7 May 90 13:42:27 GMT
References: <15427@bfmny0.UU.NET> <1990May3.111446.2879@oct1.UUCP> <1990May6.152012.14804@ddsw1.MCS.COM> <7813@dmshq.mn.org>
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pnessutt@dmshq.mn.org (Bob Monio) writes:

>Agreed.  But remember that it's a rather rough job to provide
>portability in a program across different versions of spoolers on
>different flavors of UNIX.  It's made harder in case of the above
>mentioned program when the 4GL that is being used doesn't support
>spooling of output at all...  (ie: PROGRESS)

That is incorrect. In Progress you can pipe to any UNIX command
with the "write through" statement. Even the default printer
is a pipe to "lp -s".
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