That IMHO IS the question: is typical BB lpr application is, say, automated printing to the "usually available" printer (say, cheque printer) and in this case pdq's approach rules, or to print interactively to a lpd queue?
-- Vladimir 2008/2/21, Paul Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Should not we use pdq: http://pdq.sourceforge.net ??? > > > > btw: i have no idea was pdq is, and i can not reach sf since yesterday. > > > > pdq is a non-queueing printing system -- the assumption being that > in most places, there isn't all that much contention for the printer, > and it will usually be available for printing. so you print your > job, and if the printer isn't available it is retried for a while, but > then the command gives up -- after all, you'll go fix the printer, or > find out what's wrong, and try again. it saves a copy of your job > in your home dir for a while (days) in case it's hard to reproduce, > but it won't be retried. there's no central queue or spool of print > jobs, and no central server. every client just tries the printer > directly. (i think the "printer" can be an lpd server, but i'm not > sure. but this is external to pdq.) > > i used it for years at home. now that i've upgraded all of my machines > to recent ubuntu releases, and pdq isn't apt-available, i'm running > CUPS, and it sure feels complicated in comparison to pdq. > > paul > =--------------------- > paul fox, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _______________________________________________ > busybox mailing list > [email protected] > http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/busybox > _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/busybox
