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Xref: sserve comp.org.usenix:3271 comp.unix.bsd:11573 comp.org.sug:655 comp.os.386bsd.misc:51 Newsgroups: comp.org.usenix,comp.unix.bsd,comp.org.sug,comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!ra!atkinson From: atkinson@itd.nrl.navy.mil (Randall Atkinson) Subject: Re: How to vote on POSIX Printing Message-ID: <C37x6s.88x@ra.nrl.navy.mil> Sender: usenet@ra.nrl.navy.mil Organization: Naval Research Laboratory, DC References: <C36JrI.E8K@ra.nrl.navy.mil> <C37Kwn.Hx5@sugar.neosoft.com> Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1993 16:16:03 GMT Lines: 31 In article <C37Kwn.Hx5@sugar.neosoft.com> peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >Actually, Palladium (based on the papers I FTP-ed on the subject) appears >to be a derived at least in the design from Berkeley "lpr". It has all the >same limitations, as far as being strictly a *print* queue manager, as lpr, >and only slightly improves its extensibility in the area of file formats >and conversions. It seems mainly of interest to very large networks that are >more-or-less homogenous. It is not, as some have claimed, a general batch >queue mechanism, and I don't understand why Posix has even bothered to assign >a whole committee to print queueing, rather than queue management in general. Palladium, as per the specification in the POSIX Mock Ballot which I looked at and tried to comment on, does NOT conform to the BSD lpr commands (in fact it excluded both System V and BSD flavoured commands). Moreover, it has a lot of crufty API bindings. Join the POSIX ballot group, and if you look at the POSIX proposal and think that it will work fine, then vote yes. If you look at it and see problems, then object in a specific way so problems can get fixed before this becomes standard and is forced upon us. ***----------------------------------------------------------------------*** The critical item is that the proposal get extensive review from real users during the POSIX balloting process. ***----------------------------------------------------------------------***