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In article <MARTUS.95Aug2053524@w20-575-33.mit.edu>, martus@mit.edu wrote:

> If you want to use the "Print" menu option on a Mac, you're probably
> using an application, (word processor, graphics package, editor), and 
> want to print the working document right? To be fair, you'd probably

Wrong, see below.

> be in the same situation on a Unix system. If you're using an app, and

To be fair, you can just as easily print from the finder (analagous to a 
Unix shell and command line.

> want to print something, there's a print option in the "File" menu, if
> you're running a program with a GUI.

Unix isn't big on GUIs though.  It's a mostly CLI OS.

> You're not limited to printing from the command line, although you
> could.  How do you print on a Mac, outside of an application? You have 

Easily, see below.

> to at least have some sort of finder to list the file, and then drag it 

And on Unix you have to at least have some kind of shell to even run the
computer.

> to the printer icon, right? I'm assuming that people who have printers
> have a printer icon they can drag things to, although I don't use macs,
> so I could be wrong.

Actually the Finder (analagous to a Unix shell) has a "Print" item in its
File menu.  It automatically launches the program associated with the file
and presents the dialog box where you can choose the number of pages,
color/grayscale/b&w, page size, etc.  Without having to run the app.  The
printer icon works similarly.

Also I said "sit a new user in front of a computer."  Usually when people
sit down in front of a computer they're in the finder for Macs or at  the
command line for Unix, not already in an application.

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