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Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 10:18:00 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: Setting default printer in startup scripts
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On Wed, 21 May 2003, Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 10:00:01AM +0100, David Kilroy wrote:
> > # Define default printer
> > if [ $OS = Windows_NT ]; then
> >   PRINTER=`regtool get '\user\Software\Microsoft\Windows
> > NT\CurrentVersion\Windows\Device'|sed 's?\([^,]*\),.*?\1?g'`
> > else
> >   PRINTER=`regtool get
> > '\config\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print\Printers\Default'`
> > fi
> >
> > Note: I haven't tested the above much. It works on my NT box with a network
> > printer, and I've verified an ME box has the appropriate registry entry.
>
> The backslashes are somewhat dangerous since they get evaluated as
> special characters.  Why not use forward slashes instead?  regtool
> supports them as registry key separator.
>
> Corinna

Corinna,

The backslashes are dangerous unless quoted.  They seem to be properly
quoted in the above.  So, either way is fine.  The *result* of regtool,
however, may contain all kinds of characters (including spaces), and it's
*not* quoted.  I'm also a bit wary of using OS-specific variables, such
as, well, "$OS".  So, how about the following:

# Define default printer
OUR_OS="`uname -s`"
case "$OUR_OS" in
  CYGWIN_NT-*)
      PRINTER="`regtool get '\user\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows\Device'|sed 's/,.*$//'`"
      ;;
  CYGWIN_9?-*)
      PRINTER="`regtool get '\config\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print\Printers\Default'`"
      ;;
esac

I can also confirm that the first key exists (and works) on Win2k, and the
second key exists (and works) on Win98.

FWIW, I'd like to see this in the base-files package.  John?
	Igor
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