Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 14:12:59 -0700 From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@tristatelogic.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS Message-ID: <23575.1319749979@tristatelogic.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1110270834540.94311@wonkity.com>
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In message <alpine.BSF.2.00.1110270834540.94311@wonkity.com>, Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> wrote: >... >> The only thing that worries me about my rather ad-hoc way of setting up >> a "personal" printer (as describe above) is that I sort of wonder what >> will happen if I ever try to print something when something else is >> currently printing. > >There's also the issue of printing large files, which will tie up the >command line until the printer has buffered them all... "Tie up the command line" ?? John Levine attempted to make the same point, and I'm still not really getting it. This is why we have X! I can have all of the "command lines" that I want, and I frequently do. I have at least 15 different xterm windows open as we speak, so I really don't see "tying up the command line" as a real issue. Regards, rfg
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