Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Tue, 15 May 2001 13:32:23 -0400 (EDT)


On Tue, 15 May 2001, James Simmons wrote:

> I would use write except we use write to draw into the framebuffer. If I
> write to the framebuffer with that data the only thing that will happen is
> I will get pretty colors on my screen.

Yes. And we also use write to send data to printer. So what? Nobody makes
you use the same file.

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