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In <Anders.Sundin-0408950249250001@aps.orgk2.lth.se> Anders.Sundin@orgk2.lth.se (Anders Sundin) writes:

>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.

You can use lpr only for those files who are intended to be printed.
(For other kinds of files, you have to use special filters in conjuction
with lpr, pretty much like the Mac approach).

Do you mean the Mac can print NMR-spectra from the FID data files, 
or pictures of molecules from lists of atomic coordinates?

Without the right software, the Mac can do less than lpr, not more.

>And it is no big deal to write an lpr-equivalent for the Mac.

The Mac doesn't come with one and Joe Mac User can't write any kind of
program, no matter how big deal that might be.

Dan
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