The Printer Bug Is in File

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It’s not a bug with the printer, or OpenOffice, or the printer driver. It’s a mistake in the way the “file” utility parses file signatures. When printing from OpenOffice, a PostScript file is created with the creation date.

What it means

A technical post explains that a printing problem is not caused by the printer, OpenOffice, or its driver, but by the file utility misinterpreting file signatures and dates. The joke is the absurdly specific debugging explanation delivered as a deadpan correction to a seemingly ordinary printer issue. EN: A technical post explains that a printing problem is not caused by the printer, OpenOffice, or its driver, but by the file utility misinterpreting file signatures and dates. The joke is the absurdly specific debugging explanation delivered as a deadpan correction to a seemingly ordinary printer issue.

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