Re: Printing from WindowXP version of emacs

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 17.12.2005 um 16:50 schrieb Lennart Borgman:

> Are there something similar available on other platforms?

Of course! We have some more decades experience.

Usually there is no GUI. If there is one, it comes from the windowing 
system, for example X11. This one is very basic, so that desktop 
environments like OpenWindows, CDE, KDE, Gnome, (Classic) Mac OS, or, 
Aqua on Mac OS X bring something better.

Below all this all UNIX dialects have a print spool mechanism that is 
now in its 30s. A printer can be attached to parallel, serial, or USB 
ports or exist somewhere in Internet, or Intranet, attached to the net 
or attached to a print host. When you create the print queue for this 
printer you have to give these details to the operating system. OS 
routines then determine what kind of input arrived, and what kind of 
input the printer accepts. If a difference is found, the printer 
queue's input (output of some programme) is converted according the 
printer's needs. These days this mechanism is based on CUPS, the Common 
UNIX Printing System (http://localhost:631/). To access printers on the 
net it uses a slimmed down HTTP connection (so it's open for 
cryptography or authenticated connections to the splendid printer at 
your dean's desk).

These ideas are so simple, that some couldn't resist to copy ...

--
Greetings

  Pete

$ sumascii BILL GATES
  B   I   L   L   G   A   T   E   S
 66+ 73+ 76+ 76+ 71+ 65+ 84+ 69+ 83 = 663

 and add 3 because he's Bill Gates the third.