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Submitted-by: duke@portal.paperboy.osf.org (Duke Robillard)

In article <1iakluINNblv@ftp.UU.NET> peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva) writes:

>>consensus based progress, POSIX.7 is now split into two documents
>>called POSIX.7a (print queue administration) and POSIX.7b (software
>                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>administration).
>Isn't this a rather narrow subject for a POSIX standard... 
>I assume 7b is where all the interesting stuff is going to be.

Actually, POSIX.7 is being split into n documents, one for each area
of system administration.  1003.7.1 (what Esti called .7a) is about
print systems, 1003.7.2 (formally known as .7b) is about software
package installation, 1003.7.3 will be about user management, etc.

>You're going to have to dump BSD spooling, dump System V spooling, or
>dump both and create something out of whole cloth. 

Well, some people claim we've done the later, although that a little 
extreme.  We've adopted Palladium, the print system developed at MIT's 
Project Athena.  It's an implementation of the ISO Print Standard.

>If it's the latter, why not create a generalised batch queueing and 
>scheduling system that just happens to include printing?

We thought about that, but couldn't find any software like that to base
the standard on.

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