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Bill Stephenson - 16 Jun 2004 17:30 GMT

As I recall, on OS 9 and earlier files sent to a printer were stored in
a hidden directory until printed. Does OS X do something similar, and
if so, where does it put these files?

Thanks,

Bill Stephenson

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Sherm Pendley - 16 Jun 2004 22:53 GMT

> As I recall, on OS 9 and earlier files sent to a printer were stored
> in a hidden directory until printed. Does OS X do something similar,
> and if so, where does it put these files?

Panther uses CUPS (Common Unix Printing System, <http://www.cups.org>),
and queued print jobs are stored in /var/spool/cups, as PostScript
documents.

Dunno about Jaguar & earlier.

Obligatory Perl Reference: Although CUPS is installed and working (for
both native Mac and Fink-installed Unix apps), the development headers
are nowhere to be found, so Net::CUPS doesn't want to compile.

sherm--

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Joel Rees - 16 Jun 2004 23:31 GMT

> Dunno about Jaguar & earlier.

[reiisi-rend:~] family% ls -la /var/spool/cups
ls: cups: Permission denied

heh. Permissions are correct.

Anyway, cups could be got to run (with a lot of patience, as I recall)
in 10.0. It ran, if not with fully satisfactory results in some cases,
in 10.1. I haven't noticed any serious issues in 10.2.

> Obligatory Perl Reference: Although CUPS is installed and working (for
> both native Mac and Fink-installed Unix apps), the development headers
> are nowhere to be found, so Net::CUPS doesn't want to compile.

I'm sure I've seen stuff for cups on Apple's developer's sites. Can't
say where, or if it was enough to compile Net::CUPS.

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