Re: Canon printer minor quibble
On Friday 30 September 2016 14:02:05 Mark Fletcher wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 01:31:03PM +0100, Brian wrote:
> > On Fri 30 Sep 2016 at 20:54:32 +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote:
> > > On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 10:31:45PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > > > On Thursday 29 September 2016 16:03:38 Mark Fletcher wrote:
> > > > > which I find ironic
> > > > > considering what the U of CUPS stands for
> > > >
> > > > Why? MacOSX is Unix based (via BSD) and CUPS is supposed to be
> > > > common to all Unices (though I have only used it on Linux and
> > > > MacOSX).
> > >
> > > Precisely, Lisi. Precisely.
> >
> > The "U" in CUPS officially doesn't stand for anything. The same applies
> > to the "C", "P" and "S".
>
> According to whom, Brian? (Apart from you, obviously :) ). According to
> the Internet (so it _must_ be true) it stands for Common Unix Printing
> System. Are they, and the Gutenprint driver which prints that on its
> test pages, just making sh*t up then? (To be fair I don't know which
> component creates the test page, but I do know, because I am sitting
> here with one about an inch away from my left hand, that when you ask
> CUPS to print a test page, it prints that on the test page.)
>
> Mark (who is trying to figure out how Wheezy is going to figure in this
> driver install...)
It also says most of it, definitely that U stands for Unix, on the home page
of the CUPS web interface.:
"CUPS 1.7.5
CUPS is the standards-based, open source printing system developed by Apple
Inc. for OS® X and other UNIX®-like operating systems." followed by a large
capital C containing the words "Unix Printing System".
Lisi
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