Configuration

• print and printd share a configuration file

• (In retrospect, this was probably a bad design.)

• The config file is read by a function in a shared module, MJD::Print:

• It defines the location of the spool directory,

• the name of the printer device

• the preferred file format

• the instructions for converting to that format

• and other such

• The format is The Usual:

        # This is where files are printed from
        spooldir        /var/spool/printd

        # This is the location of the printer daemon program
        # It's responsible for watching the spool directory and printing files
        # when they appear there.
        daemon          /home/mjd/src/perl/lps/printd

        # Set this to true to enable diagnostic messages
        debug_printd    1

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