Re: libpaper 1.0 on master
Yves Arrouye Email : Yves.Arrouye@marin.fdn.fr
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On Tue, 20 Aug 1996, Dan Stromberg wrote:
> Storing one thing in one place is an excellent goal.
>
> Treating multiple things as tho they were one thing (EG "all printers
> use the same paper) can be troublesome.
>
> Ideal: keep the option of an /etc/papersize, but allow a user to
> override /etc/papersize if desired, thru ~/papersize or environment
> variables.
That's what libpaper does: use whatever paper size is in the PAPER env
var, or if empty whatever name found in the file whose name is in the
PAPERSIZE env var, or if this var is empty too look in /etc/papersize,
defaulting to letter (sigh).
Yves.
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