From: bcr@bohr.physics.purdue.edu (Bill C. Riemers) Subject: Re: Applications for Linux Date: 19 Apr 1993 01:51:29 GMT
In article <1993Apr18.215537.13054@dcs.warwick.ac.uk> robin@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Rob Rainton) writes:
>Yeh - this is a good point. I'm thinking of getting a linux system,
>but I'm afraid I'll have to leave a DOS partition for a
>wordprocessor/spreadsheet use.
I'll take lucid-emacs and xspread over the commercial stuff any day. You
couldn't pay me enought to take that stuff.
>I've been thinging about this, as I'll probably get a modem capable of
>sending fax. Would it be possible to set up a printer queue that sent
>what you put into it down through the fax?
Come to think of it that is the way windows does it. It shouldn't be
to hard for someone who understands what lpr and lpd are actually doing.
Bill