How to show a message box from the filter

Michael Sweet mike at easysw.com
Fri Aug 8 01:57:59 PDT 2008


keens312 wrote:
>> keens312 wrote:
>>> ...
>>> I will use UDS, but I have no idea how to tie the agent to print queue.
>>>
>>> Could you please give me more advice about how to tie?
>> Use the printer name as part of the socket name.  For example, for
>> a printer named "MyLaserJet", the domain socket path might be
>> /private/tmp/com.vendor.MyLaserJet, where "com.vendor" is based on
>> your domain name.
>>
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>> ______________________________________________________________________
>> Michael R Sweet                        Senior Printing System Engineer
>>
> Hi Michael,
> 
> I still not clear about the benefit of tieing them together with unix domain socket?

It's a faster interface, limited to the local system, and easier to
associate on a per-queue basis (which may make the interface simpler
between the filter and user process...)

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Michael Sweet, Easy Software Products           mike at easysw dot com




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