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Date:      Thu, 17 Jun 1999 01:10:16 +0200
From:      Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@scc.nl>
To:        Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@whistle.com>
Cc:        freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Matlab 5.3
Message-ID:  <37682ED8.2A0E68FA@scc.nl>
References:  <199906161908.MAA31277@whistle.com>

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Doug Ambrisko wrote:
> 
> Marcel Moolenaar writes:
> | Don't get me wrong. I prefer to not have any temporary directories under
> | /compat/linux, but we must not rush this thing and change everything only
> | to find out that it breaks more than it fixes.
> 
> Printing for example, calling lpr from within acroread calls the FreeBSD
> version.  It gets called with a temp. file in /tmp/<blah>, but if
> acroread writes it in /compat/linux/tmp/<blah> then lpr can't find it.
> So if /compat/linux/tmp exists then it causes trouble.

Which can probably be solved by installing a Linux native lpr. What I mean
is, there are two approaches: 1) modify the emulation as a whole (module
and/or /compat/linux tree) so we fix a Linux/FreeBSD boundary case or 2)
install the Linux tool and thus remove the boundary (and possibly create a
new boundary case, of course).

> People have ran into the problem here a couple of times when we first got
> acroread running a long time ago.  Things may have changed since then.

No, I think boundary cases have always existed. The boundary is just
constantly moving ;-)

-- 
Marcel Moolenaar                                  mailto:marcel@scc.nl
SCC Internetworking & Databases                     http://www.scc.nl/
Amsterdam, The Netherlands                         tel: +31 20 4200655


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