Re: Location of Files to be Printed
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. sherm--
Re: Location of Files to be Printed
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.
