Ответ: LPR: code cleanup++

Vladimir Dronnikov dronnikov at gmail.com
Thu Feb 21 15:47:24 UTC 2008


That IMHO IS the question: is typical BB lpr application is, say,
automated printing to the "usually available" printer (say, cheque
printer) and in this case pdq's approach rules, or to print
interactively to a lpd queue?

--
Vladimir

2008/2/21, Paul Fox <pgf at brightstareng.com>:
>  > > Should not we use pdq: http://pdq.sourceforge.net ???
>  >
>  > btw: i have no idea was pdq is, and i can not reach sf since yesterday.
>  >
>
> pdq is a non-queueing printing system -- the assumption being that
> in most places, there isn't all that much contention for the printer,
> and it will usually be available for printing.  so you print your
> job, and if the printer isn't available it is retried for a while, but
> then the command gives up -- after all, you'll go fix the printer, or
> find out what's wrong, and try again.  it saves a copy of your job
> in your home dir for a while (days) in case it's hard to reproduce,
> but it won't be retried.  there's no central queue or spool of print
> jobs, and no central server.  every client just tries the printer
> directly.  (i think the "printer" can be an lpd server, but i'm not
> sure.  but this is external to pdq.)
>
> i used it for years at home.  now that i've upgraded all of my machines
> to recent ubuntu releases, and pdq isn't apt-available, i'm running
> CUPS, and it sure feels complicated in comparison to pdq.
>
> paul
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