Re: [MiNT] WDIALOG (was something else)

["Guido Flohr" <gufl0000@stud.uni-sb.de>]

On Wed, May 05, 1999 at 07:05:03AM +0000, Bernd Ebert wrote:
> On Wed, 5 May 1999 04:58:09 +0200, Guido Flohr wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> I think you got that wrong. Wdialog gives you a possibility to put Dialog-Boxes
> into Windows.

I've never used Wdialog.  I thought it was responsible for selecting the
printer driver.  Sorry, forget my suggestion.

> BTW: What Problems do you have with the lpd? It works fine here (printing
> >from the net to my atari and also printing to a linux-box). For postscript
> I would have to configure ghostscript as an filter, but that is much work,
> since my linux-box is much faster and preconfigured to print postscript.

My ignorance again.  I don't have a printer but some people told me that
they couldn't set up the lp command to work properly.

Ciao

Guido
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