RE: [MiNT] WDIALOG (was something else)

["Julian Reschke" <reschke@muenster.de>]

> From: owner-mint@fishpool.com [mailto:owner-mint@fishpool.com]On Behalf
> Of Guido Flohr
> Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 1999 4:58 AM
> To: MiNT mailing list
> Subject: Re: [MiNT] WDIALOG (was something else)
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I personally don't own a printer (you're not very eager to purchase an ink
> pisser when you have a giant laser printer at work) but ...
>
> IMHO the WDIALOG functionality (or non-functionality) belongs
> neither into
> a TSR nor into the AES.  Why not write an lp daemon for MiNT that works?
> That lp daemon could then handle the standard Unix way (i. e. handle
> Postscript) and could also provide the WDIALOG functionality.
>
> A lot of work, but you all got plenty of time, haven't you?

I thought the main functionality of WDIALOG are windowed dialogues, and some
applications of them (printer selection, font selection?). How would that
fit into "lp"?