From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: w32 issues Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 09:09:57 +0000 Message-ID: <4795B2E5.6090908@gnu.org> References: <200801192020.m0JKKUWl017748@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <200801201710.m0KHAoKn021472@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <479388A9.9010600@gmail.com> <200801201755.m0KHtuDH003880@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <47938D58.4010809@gmail.com> <200801201820.m0KIKxtW012230@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <47939341.6010903@gmail.com> <4793C620.2000500@gnu.org> <4793CD7D.6070004@gmail.com> <4793D8AA.70809@gnu.org> <4793DC1B.20505@gmail.com> <4793E37A.6040303@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1200993035 26676 80.91.229.12 (22 Jan 2008 09:10:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 09:10:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 22 10:10:54 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JHF9h-0001AC-D3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 10:10:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JHF9F-0003NL-4M for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 04:10:25 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JHF97-0003KY-08 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 04:10:17 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JHF93-0003IY-86 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 04:10:14 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JHF91-0003I4-Rv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 04:10:12 -0500 Original-Received: from mk-outboundfilter-3.mail.uk.tiscali.com ([212.74.114.23]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JHF8y-000860-GZ; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 04:10:08 -0500 Original-X-Trace: 24041763/mk-outboundfilter-1.mail.uk.tiscali.com/F2S/$ACCEPTED/freedom2Surf-customers/83.67.23.108 X-SBRS: None X-RemoteIP: 83.67.23.108 X-IP-MAIL-FROM: jasonr@gnu.org X-IP-BHB: Once X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ao8CALdBlUdTQxds/2dsb2JhbAAIq24 X-IP-Direction: OUT Original-Received: from i-83-67-23-108.freedom2surf.net (HELO [127.0.0.1]) ([83.67.23.108]) by smtp.f2s.tiscali.co.uk with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 22 Jan 2008 09:10:07 +0000 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031) In-Reply-To: X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:87282 Archived-At: Richard Stallman wrote: > GDI is an API developed by Microsoft. The real problem is not the API > itself, but rather that GDI printers are exclusively accessible via a > proprietary protocol. Therefore, GDI printers should actually be called > "printers exclusively accessible via a proprietary protocol". > > Do these printers work only with Windows? Some may do, but I think most work with CUPS and Ghostscript on GNU/Linux, either because the proprietary protocol is published by the manufacturer, or it has been reverse engineered. The above was a quote from SuSE's printing documentation (which they may have got from elsewhere).