eho@clarity.Princeton.EDU (Eric Ho) (12/19/89)
Has anyone out there implemented any lpq watcher like lpqtool ? If so then I may save some time in implementing my own. Also, I'm just wondering if people dropping off contributions onto expo.lcs.mit.edu:contrib/ could drop off a 2~3 lines comment on what is the package is all about -- say in a file called package.announce or package.man (although it'll be better if there is a separate subdirectory under contrib/ that groups all these files together so that the guy maintaining expo can fork a cron job to cat all these files together everynight -- say into a file called All-Packages.Readme. This way, people don't have to guess what the is package (e.g. ronnie.tar.Z) and have to transfer a large data set to see what is the package is all about (both wasting time, disk space & net bandwidth). I'm not sure how practical it is though since it requires the contributors to do something extra. Oh well .... -- Eric Ho Princeton University eho@confidence.princeton.edu
ries@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM (Marc Ries) (12/21/89)
The FACES software posted in comp.sources.unix many moons ago has an
"lpq watcher" feature (which works in both the SUN and X versions).
Not only does it watch the queue, it posts the faces of whomever is
the owner of the current job and/or the faces of the owners of print
jobs in the print queue.
--
Marc Ries
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