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- From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
- Subject: Re: /dev
- Message-ID: <BzMu79.F3M@chinet.chi.il.us>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 23:21:08 GMT
- References: <1h3m36INNd4l@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <1h57c2INNhsi@chnews.intel.com>
- Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX
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- In article <1h57c2INNhsi@chnews.intel.com> bhoughto@sedona.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton) writes:
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- >> 1. Should I look at the /etc/printcap file to find printers?
- >
- >Look at the PRINTER environment variable (RTFM getenv(3)),
- >and then check the printcap(5) and use the first printer
- >you find there. That is, *if* the machine has a printcap
- >(AIX does not; it uses a thing called "qconfig.")
-
- Blatent BSDism here. SysV(pre-r4) doesn't have printcap or lpr and
- has no convention for a PRINTER variable. Besides, even if lpr
- and printcap exist on a machine it doesn't automatically mean that
- it's the spooler I want to use.
-
- Les Mikesell
- les@chinet.chi.il.us
-