From owner-freebsd-current Wed Oct 25 06:51:34 1995 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id GAA14482 for current-outgoing; Wed, 25 Oct 1995 06:51:34 -0700 Received: from fieber-john.campusview.indiana.edu (Fieber-John.campusview.indiana.edu [149.159.1.34]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id GAA14477 for ; Wed, 25 Oct 1995 06:51:32 -0700 Received: (from jfieber@localhost) by fieber-john.campusview.indiana.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id IAA02587; Wed, 25 Oct 1995 08:51:26 -0500 Date: Wed, 25 Oct 1995 08:51:25 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber To: Satoshi Asami cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bsd.doc.mk and ${PRINTER} In-Reply-To: <199510251259.FAA06888@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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 ============