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From: Tom <tom@uniserve.com>
To: Warner Losh <imp@rover.village.org>
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Subject: Re: lpr/lpd changes 
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On Wed, 23 Jul 1997, Warner Losh wrote:

> In message <Pine.BSF.3.96.970722185910.22043G-100000@shell.uniserve.com> Tom writes:
> :   Unrelated:  why on earth is lpd started by the default rc* stuff?  Seems
> : unwise to fire up something that needs to be configured to be useful
> : first.
> 
> That's a good question.  would it make sense to have a grep for ^lp in
> /etc/printcap before starting it?  Or at least for lines not being
> blank and not starting with #.

  It might not be worth the effort.  Configuring lpd can be complex, and
make require additional packages (ex. ghostscript, and apsfilter) to be
useful.  Anyone who gets through the process should have much trouble
turning the NO to YES in rc.conf (or is is ON and OFF now?).

> Warner
> 

Tom