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Re: printers.mit.edu CUPS upgrade

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Evan Broder)
Fri Nov 6 15:32:47 2009

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From: Evan Broder <broder@MIT.EDU>
To: "Mark W. Manley" <mmanley@mit.edu>
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On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 12:39 PM, Mark W. Manley <mmanley@mit.edu> wrote:
> 2.  I have extended the lpq output thusly:
>
> green-arrow /mit/mmanley $ lpq -Pceres
> ceres is ready and printing
>
> warutsuk: active                            [job 2363 (Nov 05 10:37)
> localhost]
>        warutsuk_156931                         88898560 bytes
>
> Note the that there are now dates and times beside the job id.  What's
> ironic, however, is that this output only shows up when you use the old
> LPRng LPQ command.  The CUPS LPQ client is "too smart for me!" in that it
> actively strips out the extra data and replaces it with a standard CUPS
> format.  Meh.

Not that this isn't a crappy answer, but does cups-lpq -l -h
printers.mit.edu -Pceres work?

- Evan


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