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From: jgreely@cis.ohio-state.edu (J Greely)
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Subject: Re: Printing Standards?
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Date: 7 Jul 90 20:42:16 GMT
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From:  jgreely@cis.ohio-state.edu (J Greely)

In article <797@longway.TIC.COM> domo@tsa.co.uk (Dominic Dunlop) writes:
[discussion of POSIX specifying only minimal print standard,
bare-bones SysV lp]

>All rather depressing really.

Actually, I find it encouraging.  It means that the world won't
standardize on either SysV *or* Berkeley print spooling, which means
that there's room for someone to write something good.  Lpr and
company are a bitch for a large network, and I wouldn't even *try* to
run lp on 300 machines.  What's needed is a real batch system that
scales to a large network (and please, Ghod, make it administerable by
a mortal).
--
J Greely (jgreely@cis.ohio-state.edu; osu-cis!jgreely)

Volume-Number: Volume 20, Number 112