From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,517611567e1815f2 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: David Starner Subject: Re: Java momentum slowing ? Date: 1999/05/05 Message-ID: <3730617C.20C2395@aasaa.ofe.org>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 474352198 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit References: <372b0ec7.28153993@news2.ibm.net> <37289A2C.4B78EB60@rocketmail.com> <7gesv8$1bol@drn.newsguy.com> <372BB93F.7DCFD2E1@rocketmail.com> <7ggi1v$p2i@drn.newsguy.com> <372C00C6.D9AA6D72@online.no> <7gjb7d$5po$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <7gn0oo$nfi1@ftp.kvaerner.com> <372F0840.B9FCC034@aasaa.ofe.org> <7gpiri$1dt2@ftp.kvaerner.com> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Organization: Oklahoma State University Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-05-05T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: "Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen" wrote: > > David Starner wrote > > >And what if MS word users were told that they can only print at 640X480 > >resolution? That's the equivelent of telling Unix users they can only > >print under X. > > Me thinks you are confused. Try removing the word "only" from the last sentence > above. You can print from X, the same way you print anywhere else. Most good programs have a print option that converts it to postscript and sends it to lpr. If you made X handle printing, then at best printing from the console and from X would be a mess. At worst, you couldn't mix them at all. On some boxes, like my school's Sun, a.cs.okstate.edu, most people aren't running X. So adding printing to X would help few at best, and possibly hurt those people as they would have to worry about the interactions of their system with the console printing system. > > >I admit there's a problem, but you haven't shown any reasons why there > >should be a connection between X and printing. > > I rest my case. Without ever showing that X should handle printing.