Re: floppy eject buttons [was: What's a Real Computer?]

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From: Dan Pop
Date: Sun, 06 Aug 1995 22:59

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In <nevin-0608950405170001@mac-nevin.cs.arizona.edu> nevin@CS.Arizona.EDU (Nevin ":-]" Liber) writes:

>In article <danpop.807551267@rscernix>, Dan.Pop@mail.cern.ch (Dan Pop) wrote:
>
>> >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.
>
>As if Joe Unix *Programmer* could write everything necessary to get
>printing working from scratch.  If someone wanted to do this, which man
>pages should they check out??

Printing works in Unix without writing a single line of code.  It's been
already written, long ago.  The sources are freely available.

Dan
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Dan Pop
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