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Re: print.gen updates

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Whitson)
Fri Feb 4 13:24:27 2000

To: Dan Winship <danw@MIT.EDU>
Cc: moiradev@MIT.EDU
From: Mike Whitson <mwhitson@MIT.EDU>
Date: 04 Feb 2000 13:24:23 -0500
In-Reply-To: Dan Winship's message of "Thu, 03 Feb 2000 19:46:09 -0500"
Message-ID: <n91u2joygfc.fsf@dragon.mit.edu>

Dan Winship <danw@MIT.EDU> writes:

> There used to be two color printers (in copytech?) that accepted LPR
> from anyone in the universe, and relied on the fact that the queue
> names were secret for "security". Ha ha. People would print to some
> well-known hesiod name, and the print server would forward the job
> to the secret name. I think Dave set this up. Anyway, I believe this
> is done now with printcap.local entries, but it's not in io or
> mulch's printcap.local, which means that either it doesn't exist any
> more, or it's on pp, which we can't check right now.

> Anyway, if it still exists, and is still supported, then this part
> of the patch becomes controversial.

It's not on pp, either, and I don't think it's ever been terribly
"supported".  I'd like to go ahead with the patch.

> There should always be a blank line between the end of variable
> declarations and the first statement.

Okay, here:

*** print.pc	2000/01/06 21:13:51	1.6
--- print.pc	2000/02/04 18:02:56
***************
*** 39,44 ****
--- 39,46 ----
    char name[MACHINE_NAME_SIZE];
    EXEC SQL END DECLARE SECTION;
  
+   init_acls();
+ 
    EXEC SQL CONNECT :db;
  
    EXEC SQL WHENEVER SQLERROR DO sqlerr();

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