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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

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