Xprt

[Lowell Gilbert]

dick hoogendijk <dick at nagual.st> writes:

> Yesterday I upgraded my xorg-printserver. Afterwards my Xprt would not
> start. Looking at /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d/xprint.sh I did not have a
> POSIX-shell. <???> Hmmm.. seems you need ksh or bash for xprint all of
> a sudden. A warning would have been nice.

That script only requires a POSIX shell, and our standard /bin/sh
should work fine.  I just tried it, and it does work for me.

> Another thing: why would I need Xprt ??

For example, to be able to treat a printer as an X output device.

> Without it, my programs seem to print fine too.

A lot of people don't need it.  If you don't, feel fine about not
using it.