Re: [netatalk-admins] papd NBP Type Selection


Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] papd NBP Type Selection
From: wesley.craig@umich.edu
Date: Sat Oct 11 1997 - 10:03:22 EDT


> From: Patrik Schindler <poc@poc.pingnet.de>
> To: netatalk-admins@umich.edu

> Oh? Where can I read more about it?

> There's no Tag for the nbptype described.

The salient paragraph:

    papd is typically started at boot time, out of /etc/rc. It
    first reads from its configuration file,
    /usr/local/atalk/etc/papd.conf. The file is in the same
    format as /etc/printcap. See printcap(5) for details. The
    name of the entry is registered with NBP.

If you name the entry something like:

        Printer Spooler\072NotALaserWriter:\
                :etc:

you'll register the name "Printer Spooler" with the type
"NotALaserWriter". The \072 is the octal value for ascii ':'. Since
':' is interpreted by the termcap libraries, it must be escaped in this
way. I guess you could say that's a little obfuscated...

:wes



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