Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Adobe PPD files
Message-ID: <1989Nov30.171926.7946@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1025@maxim.erbe.se> <17380@rpp386.cactus.org>
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 89 17:19:26 GMT

In article <17380@rpp386.cactus.org> woody@rpp386.cactus.org (Woodrow Baker) writes:
>DON'T change the serverdict password.  If for some reason you forget it,
>you will have to send the controller off to get it recovered.  Secondly,
>may aplications depend on server password to be the default of 0 and will
>flat out fail. ...

In a shared environment, this is a feature, not a bug.  We *want* those
applications to fail; we do not want them messing with persistent
characteristics of the printer.  They have no damn business doing so anyway.
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