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Also memories of making printing work on Linux in the late 90s to some old beast of an HP Laserjet. CUPS exited but was a pain to configure, so I’d just convert
by TylerE 4mo ago
Also memories of making printing work on Linux in the late 90s to some old beast of an HP Laserjet. CUPS exited but was a pain to configure, so I’d just convert whatever I wanted to print to postscript, then
Cat homework.ps > /dev/lp0
- xenadu02 4mo agoAh this one was so long ago I forgot about it. The realization that (on DOS) "copy con file.txt" as the world's worst text editor or "copy file lpt1:" was treating physical devices as files. Everything on the computer was arbitrary so you could make anything behave like anything else (for some definition of behave like)! Not a great insight I'll grant but a key one that everyone has to go through to be any good.