Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 21:18:54 -0400 From: Christopher Masto <chris@netmonger.net> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, Mark Ovens <marko@FreeBSD.ORG>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: wollman@FreeBSD.ORG, papowell@astart.com Subject: Re: Request for review (LPDEST vs PRINTER) Message-ID: <20000803211854.A23133@netmonger.net> In-Reply-To: <v04210100b5ae6d48df7f@[128.113.24.47]>; from Garance A Drosihn on Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 09:35:23PM -0400 References: <20000802223930.C236@parish> <v04210100b5ae6d48df7f@[128.113.24.47]>
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On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 09:35:23PM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > The other printing-system alternative is LPRng (which people > can install from ports). LPRng does add the 'lpstat' command, > in addition to replacing lpr/lpq/lprm. And if I am reading > this code right, it does check LPDEST for all of those commands, > *-but-* it has PRINTER taking precedence over LPDEST, and not > the way POSIX (apparently) describes it. From testing, it appears that you are reading the code correctly. The documentation for LPRng, however, indicates for the SysV commands that LPDEST takes precedence. It's probably just an oversight. -- Christopher Masto Senior Network Monkey NetMonger Communications chris@netmonger.net info@netmonger.net http://www.netmonger.net Free yourself, free your machine, free the daemon -- http://www.freebsd.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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