> Around about 1010h 09/08/2002, Samuel Flory emitted the following wisdom:
> > The printer on fire message is the traditional Un*x error message for
> > unknown error on a printer.
>
> What I don't understand is why the misleading message is sent
> instead of the printer driver stating that it has received an unknown printer
> error code and printing the code number.
See the paragraph you quoted.
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