-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Le Mercredi 6 Novembre 2002 22:38, Richard a écrit :
CUPS is a printing system. What does it mean? In Linux, printers are represented as queues. Each queue can be a different something, you send the file to a server in memory. This server processes the file and sends it to the required queue. It is nice because local printers, remote printers (of whatever kind) just look the same for the user.
This server is CUPS (it could be LPRng, LPD, etc). It is very complex
compared with older systems like LPRng and is able to process documents before they are printed in a very nice way. Some KDE printing features (in the printing dialog) work only with CUPS.
I hope you get the idea. Otherwise just ask again. ;-)
Thibaut: That is the finest answer/description of CUPS I have read! Thank you. I have been searching the web for weeks to get just such an answer. That now gives me a starting point to go back and figure out just how CUPS does what you say it does.
I thank you for being such a gentleman and answering the question.
If my answer was useful to you, then I'm happy! ;-) - -- Thibaut Cousin E-mail : cousin@in2p3.fr Web : http://clrwww.in2p3.fr -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9yhwKv1vqsTa1E4oRAn/8AJ480qaR+jRPyGqRKHYgeh4UrV8WKACeLMss X8mUCn9BnI/j/n8XSM7ubBQ= =uyW9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----