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From: doug@xdos.UUCP (Doug Merritt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: 1.4 wish list-Printer Support
Keywords: Printer Driver maker/patcher needed
Message-ID: <290@xdos.UUCP>
Date: 14 May 89 16:49:07 GMT
References: <6984@ecsvax.UUCP> <6850@cbmvax.UUCP> <6996@ecsvax.UUCP> <6863@cbmvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: doug@xdos.UUCP (Doug Merritt)
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Organization: Hunter Systems, Mountain View CA (Silicon Valley)
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In article <6863@cbmvax.UUCP> daveb@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Berezowski) writes:
>	Perhaps some kind sole will take the lead from the V1.2 printer
                          ^^^^
>driver generator and re-code it in 'C' and in English, and put it on

If this is a reference to Fred Fish, I think he's probably busy enough
already. Yuk, yuk. Urk. Ok, ok...a bad pun. Sorry.

This is a good point, though. It seems like a good thing for CBM to
support, in an ideal world. What are the chances of doing so in 1.4?
I would think that it would be worthwhile to cut the list of CBM
supported printers drastically, and instead put the effort into providing
open ended support via that CBM-supported printer driver generator.

There's always going to be more printers than you can directly support,
so this would be the technically "right" way to do it.
	Doug
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