Interesting .....

[Bill Campbell]

On Tue, Jul 24, 2007, Ben Duncan wrote:
>Ok, that got my attention .. When did they add SYS5 style
>printing stuff ?

Several years ago, say SuSE 8.2 or so?

When I first started doing serious Linux works about 12 years ago I hacked
SYSV printer interface scripts and an ``lp'' program that puts the SYSV lp
options as the first line of a print job, then the script (BSD Filter),
extracts the first line before sending the job to the printer.

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Bill
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