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Date:      Sun, 16 Jul 2000 14:32:18 -0400
From:      Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
To:        "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM>
Cc:        Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Request for comments: new `lpd' suite feature
Message-ID:  <v04210113b597aec12e89@[128.113.24.47]>
In-Reply-To: <200007150409.AAA32685@whizzo.transsys.com>
References:  <200007142139.RAA88779@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <v0421010db59547b0a7e1@[128.113.24.47]> <200007150409.AAA32685@whizzo.transsys.com>

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At 12:09 AM -0400 7/15/00, Louis A. Mamakos wrote:
>I almost hate to bring this up, but I think the unnamed-here
>proposed replacement for our lpd allows you to set your PRINTER
>environment variable to something like
>
>	PRINTER=queuename@spooler.do.main
>
>louie

For what it's worth, I think that feature is a little too helpful,
and I would not want that ability on our (RPI) public unix
workstations.  I do want some capability to specify a hostname,
but not a wide-open capability to specify any hostname.


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Garance Alistair Drosehn           =   gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer          or  drosih@rpi.edu
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute


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