Re: [hpoj-devel] A better way to print!

[Joe P. <joe...@sn...>]

On Thursday 14 December 2000 07:28, David Paschal wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just posted an experimental daemon that makes it much easier to set up
> printing with the hpoj package, by eliminating the need for the
> "wrapfilter" hack we all know and love.  :-)  You can get it from
> http://hpoj.sourceforge.net/download.shtml (near the bottom of the page).
> Please see the README file in the package for more information.
>
> I look forward to hearing what people think about this concept.  I think
> I will leave this out of 0.7 since it's so new and experimental, but I
> could be convinced otherwise if people like it well enough and any problems
> with it can be fixed in the next couple of days.  :-)
>
> David

David:

This is good news.

The daemon is indeed very easy to set up and use. It looks like you're headed 
in the right direction with this. Maybe it could become the solution to many 
of the problems we've been having. Are you planning to eventually use it as a 
printer control/communication device?

You mentioned in the README that some security issues need to be addressed. 
If you can make it secure enough, then by all means add it to the next 
release.  

Here is my experience with ptal-printd so far:

It compiled with no warnings or other problems.

I will probably set it up to start at boot after you're more certain of its 
security, but so far, I only ran it from the command line.

I printed several pages without trouble. The only problem encountered so far 
was the old one that occurs when xojpanel is running when a second print job 
is requested. Could ptal-printd eventually fix that, if for instance, 
xojpanel (or a replacement control GUI) talks to the daemon instead of the 
printer directly?

-- 
Joe