On Friday 30 September 2016 14:02:05 Mark Fletcher wrote: > On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 01:31:03PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > On Fri 30 Sep 2016 at 20:54:32 +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote: > > > On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 10:31:45PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > > On Thursday 29 September 2016 16:03:38 Mark Fletcher wrote: > > > > > which I find ironic > > > > > considering what the U of CUPS stands for > > > > > > > > Why? MacOSX is Unix based (via BSD) and CUPS is supposed to be > > > > common to all Unices (though I have only used it on Linux and > > > > MacOSX). > > > > > > Precisely, Lisi. Precisely. > > > > The "U" in CUPS officially doesn't stand for anything. The same applies > > to the "C", "P" and "S". > > According to whom, Brian? (Apart from you, obviously :) ). According to > the Internet (so it _must_ be true) it stands for Common Unix Printing > System. Are they, and the Gutenprint driver which prints that on its > test pages, just making sh*t up then? (To be fair I don't know which > component creates the test page, but I do know, because I am sitting > here with one about an inch away from my left hand, that when you ask > CUPS to print a test page, it prints that on the test page.) > > Mark (who is trying to figure out how Wheezy is going to figure in this > driver install...)
It also says most of it, definitely that U stands for Unix, on the home page of the CUPS web interface.: "CUPS 1.7.5 CUPS is the standards-based, open source printing system developed by Apple Inc. for OS® X and other UNIX®-like operating systems." followed by a large capital C containing the words "Unix Printing System". Lisi