rbraun@spdcc.COM (Rich Braun) (06/21/91)
I have a background mainly on DEC systems (VMS, TOPS-10/20, etc.) and have found one seemingly-glaring omission in both major flavors of Unix (BSD and SysV): a standardized queue-management application/programming interface. Virtually every mainframe system of the past had tens of software-person-years tied up in this area. I have a package which currently runs on IBM-PC's which has a Macintosh- like printing interface, allowing one to select various parameters, issue a print request and check on its status. It is now being ported to Unix. What's the best way to accomplish this under Unix? (I need to support both flavors.) Must I pipe commands to and from system utilities, which tend to vary quite a bit between vendors and releases? -rich