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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re:  My $0.02 on local printing at X terminals
Message-ID: <3696@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 20 Jul 90 21:22:37 GMT
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>If we take your attitude sound'll never be supported.
>
>If we take your attitude printing'll never be supported.

If we take his attitude, sound and printing will never be supported by
extensions to the X protocol.

Whether this means they'll never be supported at all is another issue -
one about which people can probably speculate until they're blue in the
face, but which isn't likely to be resolved by any hard facts until
either

	1) somebody invents the "Y Sound System, Version 1" and its
	   related protocol, and the "Z Network Terminal Printing System,
	   Version 1" and its related protocol

or

	2) a fair bit of time goes by and nobody invents either one.

Perhaps those who want the ability to do sound, printing, etc.  at
network terminals and remote workstations and don't particularly have
any religious feelings that they belong in X should get together and do
1), and render the whole discussion moot, or unsuccessfully attempt to
do 1) and demonstrate that their failure was inevitable due to
restrictions that would have been absent had they implemented them as X
extensions.