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On 02 Aug 1995 09:35:24 GMT, Dave Hwang (martus@mit.edu) wrote:
: How do you print on a Mac, outside of an application? 

   You don't.  There is no user-level access to the printer.  If you
want something printed, you have to open up an application, then use
its facilities to send it to the printer.  If you have a plain text file
you want printed, you have to open the text file in a text editor and
select print from the menu.  If you have a plain Postscript file you
want to print, you have to load it into a postscript printing program
and send it to the printer.  If your system doesn't have such a program
installed, you can't print Postscript files, period.

   It's yet another example of how the Mac paradigm of a-document-is-
produced-by-an-application gets in the way when you want to do even the
simplest things.

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