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From: "David E. O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: cvs commit: ports/print/a2ps-letter/files patch-printers.c
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obrien      2001/05/18 02:21:11 PDT

  Added files:
    print/a2ps-letter/files patch-printers.c 
  Log:
  Don't send the generated output to the printer by default.
  
  Sending the file by default to the printer is (IMHO):
  
  . counter-intuitive; the name a2ps suggests that the tool converts
    ASCII (plus other files) to Postscript, but it by no means gives a
    hint that it would print something without asking,
  
  . violating the Unix way; we've got pipes, and people are used to use
    them when they want to print something (IMHO there isn't even a good
    reason for adding all the -P bloat to a2ps at all, but of course, i
    don't suggest changing _that_),
  
  . contradictionary to all the documentation about a2ps since the docs
    tell you that it would only start printing if a -P or -c option is
    being provided,
  
  . a waste of paper for the brave user who starts the program in the
    innocent assumption to get just a Postscript file out of it.
  
  Not objected by:	ports@freebsd.org, maintainer
  Submitted by:		joerg


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