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From: saunders@batcomputer.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: IM rules beef
Message-ID: <559@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: Mon, 30-Mar-87 11:27:23 EST
Article-I.D.: batcompu.559
Posted: Mon Mar 30 11:27:23 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 1-Apr-87 03:24:43 EST
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Reply-To: saunders@batcomputer.UUCP (kevin eric saunders)
Organization: Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
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Keywords: portability, device-independent printing

earleh@dartvax.UUCP (Earle R. Horton) writes:
>I recently posted an application and some code that showed how to
>achieve draft-quality printing from the Macintosh on most of the world's
>printers.  

Sure enough, an IM chauvinist responded:

>>IM tells how to write applications that do not depend on the printer. 

Yeah, you can use the wonderful text-streaming calls that insert semi-random
spaces into your text.  Lovely.  A Daisywheel is better for business use
than an Imagewriter, why should my TEC F10 gather dust?  Let's face facts:
bitmap printing on an Imagewriter is SLOW, and I want my rough draft NOW.
Speaking of standards, why doesn't Apple respect ASCII enough to give me
a standard way to produce control characters on the keyboard?  NIH?  %-)

>Is it just me, or do others share this beef?

   Yes I do, and that's why I incorporated a dumb-but-fast printing routine in
"dumb virtue," my text editor/VT100 terminal emulator, recently posted to
mod.mac.binaries.  That way the program can give you asynchronous
printing too--after all, why should the 68000 have to sit around waiting
for the printer, when the Mac has semi-functional asynchronous serial drivers?

Antinomian to the end,
kevin

"JHVH-1 made me do it!"--Santa K.

-- 
Kevin Eric Saunders			
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