Date: Wed, 25 Oct 1995 08:51:25 -0500 (EST)
From: John Fieber <jfieber@fieber-john.campusview.indiana.edu>
To: Satoshi Asami <asami@cs.berkeley.edu>
Cc: current@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: bsd.doc.mk and ${PRINTER}
Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951025084918.220B-100000@fieber-john.campusview.indiana.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199510251259.FAA06888@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU>
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On Wed, 25 Oct 1995, Satoshi Asami wrote: > Now, sorry if this has been discussed before, but PRINTER is a > standard environment variable used on BSD systems (it's called LPDEST > on SysV) to denote the default printer name. For instance, the "lpr" > command shipped with FreeBSD reads it. Of course, if the user has > this set to "myprinter" or something, lpr will work but make world > will fail. Ahhh... Yet another good reason to change it! I've been wanting to rework bsd.doc.mk but have not had the time yet. I plan to replace the PRINTER with FORMATS, referring to the output formats you wish to generate. Are there any known environment variable clashes with that name? > Comments? Will it be a huge headache to change this? Shouldn't be. -john == jfieber@indiana.edu =========================================== == http://fieber-john.campusview.indiana.edu/~jfieber ============
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