Re: 1003.7.1/Palladium/Existing Practice

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From: Doug Gwyn
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 18:30

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Submitted-by: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)

In article <1jhvrnINNrdm@ftp.UU.NET> atkinson@itd.nrl.navy.mil (Randall Atkinson) writes:
>  Also, there was already precedent set within POSIX by the POSIX.2
>inclusion of lp(1) as a command line interface for printing.  This has
>been studiously ignored by the vendors promoting Palladium --

It's been a while since I've seen POSIX.2 drafts, but unless something
has radically changed from existing "lp" practice, one should note that
there need be little connection between an interface such as "lp" and
the guts of a spooling system.  As previously noted, MDQS includes
Bourne shell scripts implementing useful subsets of "lp" and "lpr"
even though the "lp"/"lpr" user requests all get translated into MDQS-
specific operations within these implementations.  Presumably something
similar could be done to provide "lp" functionality for any reasonable
UNIX/POSIX spooling system.

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