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From: "Juan Manuel Guerrero" <st001906 AT HRZ1 DOT HRZ DOT TU-Darmstadt DOT De>
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To: sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles Sandmann)
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 14:29:54 +0100
Subject: Re: bison and djgpp.env
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> > It should be noticed that ENSCRIPT_LIBRARY points to the wrong place.
> > enscript 1.6.1 and enscript 1.6.2 places their files in the canonical places:
> >         /dev/env/DJDIR/etc for enscript.cfg and
> >         /dev/env/DJDIR/share/enscript for the AFM fonts.
> > AFAIK enscript 1.5.0 has been removed from simtel.net, so the ENSCRIPT_LIBRARY
> > is no longer needed. IMHO this entry should be removed or it should point
> > to the right place.
>
> I assume the old versions need this, however, so if someone has an old
> version downloaded/installed I would not want to break that install by
> removing the environment variable (at least not in a 2.03 refresh).  Adding
> a + in front of the variable seems the right thing in any case.  If the
> old environment variable doesn't hurt anything in new versions I would rather 
> document and leave it.

OFYI:
I have reinspected enscript 1.5.0 and I have seen that ENSCRIPT_LIBRARY does not
shadow the canonical path hard coded into enscript 1.6.1/2. So the actual value of
this variable does not influence enscript 1.6.1/2's behaviour. Netherless I would
suggest a + sign in front of ENSCRIPT_LIBRARY.

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