two minor lpr gripes

[Garance A Drosihn]

At 10:47 AM -0700 9/18/03, roger n. tospott wrote:
>/usr/src/usr.sbin/lpr/common_source/lp.local.h currently has
>
>     #define      DEFMX           1000
>
>Given the size of files nowadays, shouldn't this be a
>little larger?

This was recently changed to 0 in current, but not in stable.
(zero meaning "no limit").  It probably makes sense to pick
*some* limit instead of "infinity", but I couldn't come up
with a good reason for any specific value, so we just went
with zero (aka "infinity").

>Also, maybe it's just me, but given this (from man printcap):
>
>      Name       Type      Default                Description
>      mx         num       1000                   maximum file size (in BUFSIZ
>                                                  blocks), zero = unlimited
>
>it's not obvious to me that "Type num" means that, if i wanted
>an unlimited maximum file size, the printcap entry should be
>"mx#0", rather than "mx=0".  Perhaps more expressive examples
>could be helpful in /usr/src/etc/printcap.

Heh.  It's obvious to people who have done a lot with printcap
or termcap, but it's true that people often miss that.  I thought
I had added some logic to chkprintcap for that (so you'd at least
see a warning message when lpd starts up).  Perhaps I only did
that in my own versions, and never committed it to freebsd.

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Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad at gilead.netel.rpi.edu
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih at rpi.edu