[clug] Foolishly fiddling with a GDI printer

Alex Satrapa grail at goldweb.com.au
Sat Nov 19 02:38:48 MST 2011


On 19 Nov 2011, at 20:09, Angus Gratton wrote:

> But to answer this point anyhow, a Mach-O binary is an OS X executable
> program. As you suspect, it's unique to OS X. I think the usual setup
> is that cups runs a "filter" program and pipes its standard data
> through it, in order to convert it to the printer's proprietary print
> format.

I'll take a moment to reflect on the particular issue that started Richard Stallman on the Free Software crusade in the first place.

Nothing's changed.




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