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Re: Printing and Athena 10
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Mon Dec 24 01:06:39 2007
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Daniel Jared Dominguez <danjared@mit.edu>
Cc: athena10@mit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20071224030032.GU18186@how-about-a-nice-game-of-chess.mit.edu>
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Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2007 01:06:37 -0500
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On Sun, 2007-12-23 at 22:00 -0500, Daniel Jared Dominguez wrote:
> > Would this mean that you couldn't (easily) print to machines on a "far
> > away" subnet?
> >
> > -Tim Abbott
>
> No, it's possible. See Wide-Area Bonjour (not sure what the non-Apple
> name is).
The issue is that we don't have a lot of control over the UI. When I go
to print a mail message in GNOME (and presumably on OSX), I am offered a
list of printers. That list can either be a few dozen long, making it
hard to find the printers nearest me, or it can be just the nearby
printers, making it hard to print in a far away location. There's no
way to make it offer a short list with the option to expand to a long
list.
