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Submitted-by: duke@osf.org

geoff@tyger.East.Sun.COM (Geoff Arnold @ Sun BOS - R.H. coast near the top) writes:
>Actually, the biggest pain in the ass is not the printing commands, or
>even the administration model. It's the absence of a standard printing
>API. ....
>It's been a while since I looked at the palladium doc (I've just
>pulled DEC-palladium-overview.ps over from gatekeeper.dec.com - it's in
>/.3/net/info/ietf/print-wg - and I'll read it over), but I don't recall
>there being any kind of API which would be suitable for cross-platform
>uses. 

Palladium defines two APIs you could use to write print clients.  One 
is real high level--each command has a function version.  The other
is much lower level.  It lets you build up print requests and submit
them to a spooler.  Chapter 4 of the POSIX draft is this second api.

>Maybe we should just define a printing API. Nail down a really
>straightforward interface (just half a dozen calls or so), 

The Palladium one is more complicated than that, since there's so
much more stuff to do in Palladium than in, for example, lpr/lpd.

Bob Robillard, Technical Editor 1003.7.1, duke@osf.org


Volume-Number: Volume 30, Number 36