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In article <danpop.807467749@rscernix>,
Dan.Pop@mail.cern.ch (Dan Pop) wrote:

>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.

No it isn't. You can't use lpr to print NMR-spectra from the FID data files,
or to print pictures of molecules from lists of atomic coordinates.
And it is no big deal to write an lpr-equivalent for the Mac.

-Anders
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