On Jun 16, 2004, at 12:30 PM, Bill Stephenson wrote:
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.
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