Setting default printer in startup scripts

[Corinna Vinschen]

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

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