From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter Dyballa Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Printing from WindowXP version of emacs Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 17:31:34 +0100 Message-ID: References: <1134660719.186074.250590@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com> <43A1B787.9040001@student.lu.se> <43A27ACF.1040705@student.lu.se> <43A2D4E8.7090306@student.lu.se> <43A37B01.6080603@student.lu.se> <812e3835d8e20230c7c0f656c6716dda@Web.DE> <43A433CA.4020008@student.lu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v623) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1134837446 26324 80.91.229.2 (17 Dec 2005 16:37:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 16:37:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs help Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 17 17:37:17 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Enf2W-0004ux-VO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 17 Dec 2005 17:36:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Enf3F-0003Ff-02 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 17 Dec 2005 11:36:53 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Eneyz-0001Yx-8s for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Dec 2005 11:32:29 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Eneyw-0001XJ-P9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Dec 2005 11:32:28 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Eneyw-0001WT-6q for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Dec 2005 11:32:26 -0500 Original-Received: from [217.72.192.226] (helo=smtp08.web.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA:24) (Exim 4.34) id 1Enf1Y-0002ZY-MC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Dec 2005 11:35:09 -0500 Original-Received: from [87.193.28.59] (helo=[192.168.1.2]) by smtp08.web.de with asmtp (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (WEB.DE 4.105 #340) id 1Eney8-0001wa-00; Sat, 17 Dec 2005 17:31:37 +0100 In-Reply-To: <43A433CA.4020008@student.lu.se> X-Image-Url: http://homepage.mac.com/sparifankal/.cv/thumbs/me.thumbnail Original-To: Lennart Borgman X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.623) X-Sender: Peter_Dyballa@web.de X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:32022 Archived-At: 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.