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From: jhf@c3.lanl.gov (Joe Fasel)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: MacMINIX: /dev/lp, ps fixes
Summary: Does a close system call flush the page buffer?
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Date: 19 Nov 90 20:57:33 GMT
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In article <1990Nov19.182656.22199@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> archetyp@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Joseph R Pickert) writes:
>/dev/lp buffers up a page in memory.  Always use pr to print to it.
>If you print 1.5 pages, the second page won't come out until you print
>an additional .5 pages (in lines that is, not chars or words).  

Does a close system call flush the page buffer?
What about termination of a process that has /dev/lp open?

--Joe Fasel
Los Alamos National Laboratory