1FOOMATIC-KITLOAD(8) System Manager's Manual FOOMATIC-KITLOAD(8)
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6 foomatic-kitload - installs a data kit into the foomatic database.
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9 foomatic-kitload [ -k kit-dir] [ -d dest-dir]...
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12 foomatic-kitload installs a foomatic data kit into the local data
13 library. It takes a -k dirname option, where dirname is the toplevel
14 directory of a foomatic driver "kit". A "kit" is a selection of XML
15 source files arranged exactly as in the source/section of the master
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18 Gimp-Print's foomatic-generator produces exactly such a kit.
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20 Foomatic-kitload is moderately paranoid about kits: the kit must con‐
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29 dirname is the toplevel directory of a foomatic driver "kit".
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45 Manfred Wassmann <manolo@NCC-1701.B.Shuttle.de> for the foomatic
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57Foomatic Project 2001-05-07 FOOMATIC-KITLOAD(8)