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\fR\f(CWFloppyd_installtest is used to check for the presence of a running floppyd daemon. This is usefull, if you have a small frontend script to mtools, which decides whether to use floppyd or not.
\fR\f(CWfloppyd_installtest [\f(CW-f] Connect-String
If the \f(CW-f option is specified, \f(CWfloppyd_installtest does a full X-Cookie authentication and complains if this does not work.
The connect-String has the format described in the floppyd-section: \fIhostname\f(CW:displaynumber[\f(CW/baseport]
* To generate a printable copy from the texinfo doc, run the following commands:
./configure; make dvi; dvips mtools.dvi.lp \fR
* To generate a html copy, run:
./configure; make html.lp \fRA premade html can be found at \fR\f(CW\(ifhttp://www.gnu.org/software/mtools/manual/mtools.html\(is
* To generate an info copy (browsable using emacs' info mode), run:
./configure; make info.lp \fR
The texinfo doc looks most pretty when printed or as html. Indeed, in the info version certain examples are difficult to read due to the quoting conventions used in info.