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Article #435Re: floppy eject buttons [was: What's a Real Computer?]
From: Dan Pop
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 1995 16:35
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 1995 16:35
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In <ericb.513.301F92A2@psu.edu> ericb@psu.edu (Eric Bennett) writes: >In article <MARTUS.95Aug2053524@w20-575-33.mit.edu> Dave Hwang <martus@mit.edu> writes: > >Apple's new drivers for the StyleWriter 1200 give you the option of putting a >printer icon on the desktop. For the general case of printing any document on >any printer, you can select the documents in the Finder and choose "print" >from the file menu. The Finder will launch the relevant applications and send >them an Apple Event which tells them to print the documents. What if the relevant application is no longer present on the system? :-) lpr doesn't need to launch any relevant applications. A running lpd is enough. Dan -- Dan Pop CERN, CN Division Email: Dan.Pop@mail.cern.ch Mail: CERN - PPE, Bat. 31 R-004, CH-1211 Geneve 23, Switzerland
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!CERN.ch!rscernix!danpop From: Dan.Pop@mail.cern.ch (Dan Pop) Subject: Re: floppy eject buttons [was: What's a Real Computer?] X-Nntp-Posting-Host: ues5.cern.ch Message-ID: <danpop.807467749@rscernix> Sender: news@news.cern.ch (USENET News System) Organization: CERN European Lab for Particle Physics X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #9 (NOV) References: <3uodl4$359@decaxp.harvard.edu> <ericb.397.3017BA4F@psu.edu> <MARTUS.95Aug2053524@w20-575-33.mit.edu> <ericb.513.301F92A2@psu.edu> Date: Thu, 3 Aug 1995 16:35:49 GMT