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Article #437Re: floppy eject buttons [was: What's a Real Computer?]
From: Eric Bennett
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 1995 16:54
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 1995 16:54
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In article <danpop.807467749@rscernix> Dan.Pop@mail.cern.ch (Dan Pop) writes: >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. There are advantages to each approach. No, I can't use the Finder's print without the application installed. But then you can't just LPR a JPEG file, while I can print one from the Finder (if the appropriate application is installed). -Ericb@psu.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!news.cac.psu.edu!lure!ericb From: ericb@psu.edu (Eric Bennett) Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel Subject: Re: floppy eject buttons [was: What's a Real Computer?] Date: Thu, 3 Aug 1995 16:54:46 GMT Organization: Penn State University, Center for Academic Computing Message-ID: <ericb.535.3020FF56@psu.edu> References: <3uodl4$359@decaxp.harvard.edu> <ericb.397.3017BA4F@psu.edu> <MARTUS.95Aug2053524@w20-575-33.mit.edu> <ericb.513.301F92A2@psu.edu> <danpop.807467749@rscernix> NNTP-Posting-Host: lure.bmb.psu.edu X-Authinfo-User: emb121@psu.edu X-Newsreader: Trumpet for Windows [Version 1.0 Rev B]