*** ptal-init.in.old	Sun Oct 14 16:20:10 2001
--- ptal-init.in	Sun Oct 14 16:31:20 2001
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*** 24,29 ****
--- 24,37 ----
  # Original author: David Paschal
  
  
+ # Make sure the daemons' directories are available.
+ # They're non-persistent in the case of devfs.
+ foreach $dir ("/dev","/dev/ptal-mlcd","/dev/ptal-printd") {
+ 	if (! -d $dir && !mkdir($dir,0755)) {
+ 		die "Unable to create directory $dir ($!)!\n";
+ 	}
+ }
+ 
  # Adjust if necessary to give the proper pattern to find all USB printer
  # device nodes on your system:
  $usbWildcard="/dev/usb/lp*";