On Jun 16, 2004, at 12:30 PM, Bill Stephenson wrote:
As I recall, on OS 9 and earlier files sent to a printer were stored
in a hidden directory until printed. Does OS X do something similar,
and if so, where does it put these files?
Panther uses CUPS (Common Unix Printing System,
Dunno about Jaguar earlier.
[reiisi-rend:~] family% ls -la /var/spool/cups
ls: cups: Permission denied
heh. Permissions are correct.
Anyway, cups could be got to run (with a lot of patience, as I recall)
in 10.0. It ran, if not with fully satisfactory results in some cases,
in 10.1. I
