Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!dogie.macc.wisc.edu!decwrl!fernwood!oracle!news From: jlevine@oracle.com (Jonathan Levine) Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew Subject: Can a default printer be specified? Message-ID: <1990Jul12.210129.21269@oracle.com> Date: 12 Jul 90 21:01:29 GMT Sender: news@oracle.com Reply-To: jlevine@oracle.com (Jonathan Levine) Organization: Oracle, Belmont, CA, USA Lines: 32 As shipped, Andrew's print support prints to the printer named in the $PRINTER environment variable. Unfortunately, most of the people here want to have their $PRINTER set to a non-postcript printer, but have their Andrew output go to our postscript printer. I've been trying to get print.c to do this, by setting my .preferences file print.spooldir, setting the AndrewSetup SpoolDir, and setting the site.h print_SPOOLDIR. None of these actions seem to override the $PRINTER variable; they both merely change the default on ez's Set Printer menu option. That is, when I select Set Printer, I get: "Current printer is <$PRINTER>. Set printer to [print.SpoolDir]:" whereas what I'd like to get is: "Current printer is . Set printer to:" Is there any way to do what I want to do, short of hardcoding the postscript printer's name in the print_PRINTCOMMAND? Enquiring users want to know. Thanks, Jon ----------------------------------------------------------------- From the Oracle*Desk of: "Paradise is exactly like Jonathan Levine where you are right now, Oracle*Mail Development only much, much better."