FOOMATIC-COMBO-XML(1)

✨ foomatic-combo-xml ✨

ok so bestie, this one lives in the General Commands Manual section, and it's called foomatic-combo-xml. yes it's a whole mouthful, we're gonna get through it together 💖

🌸 NAME 🌸

foomatic-combo-xml — <put a short description here>

not me reading the original manpage and it literally just says <put a short description here> 💀 girl the placeholder is STILL there. iconic behavior honestly. i'm not gonna invent a description for you because that would be lying and lying is not the vibe. the actual description? it's a mystery. a little enigma. main character energy.

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

foomatic-combo-xml [OPTION]...

that's it. that's the whole summoning spell. you give it some [OPTION]... and it does its thing 🦋

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

okay so here's the tea 🍓:

This is the Foomatic acceleration engine, and it's written in C — by Till, shoutout Till 👑 — and what it does is it computes:

• the printer/driver combo XML files
• and the printer overview XML file

that's the whole job. it's the lil engine that crunches the combo XMLs and the overview XML. no cap, that's literally what the manpage says and i'm not adding a single thing on top of it 🙈

🔥 EXIT STATUS 🔥

foomatic-combo-xml returns ???

i know bestie. i KNOW. three question marks. the original manpage really said "returns ???" and left it there. so if you were hoping to script around the exit code… the docs are not giving. mystery return value. suspense. we love an unresolved plotline 😭

💜 AUTHOR 💜

Manfred Wassmann <manolo@NCC-1701.B.Shuttle.de> — and he did this for the foomatic project, using output from the associated binary. so like, the manpage itself is derived from what the binary spits out. cute, right? 🫶

👑 BUGS 👑

okay so first bug report: this manpage needs editing 💀 yes the manpage is self-aware, she's calling herself out, respect.

if you wanna post actual bug reports, they go here:

http://lists.freestandards.org/mailman/listinfo/printing-foomatic

go forth and report, bestie 🌈

and that's the whole page!! this one came from the <strong>Foomatic Project</strong>, dated <strong>2001-05-07</strong> — a true vintage icon, older than most of us, still out here explaining an engine written in C by Till. slay, periodt 💅✨