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xfig on suns and rs6000's uses lp rather than lpr

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Erik Nygren)
Fri Nov 4 00:43:55 1994

To: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 04 Nov 1994 00:41:02 EST
From: Erik Nygren <nygren@MIT.EDU>


Hello,

xfig (in the sipb locker) on the Suns and RS6000's uses lp to print
rather than lpr.  It should probably be recompiled to use Athenaized
lpr instead.  This causes the print option to fail for many users.
Decs and Linux machines DTRT.

bill-the-cat:~/courses/6.037/ps4% strings /mit/sipb/sun4bin/xfig | grep lp
lp %s -oPS
lp %s -d%s -oPS
lp %s -oPS %s
lp %s, -d%s -oPS %s

bill-the-cat:~/courses/6.037/ps4% strings /mit/sipb/decmipsbin/xfig  | grep lp
lpr %s -J %s
lpr %s -J %s -P%s
lpr %s -J %s %s
lpr %s -J %s -P%s %s

bill-the-cat:~/courses/6.037/ps4% strings /mit/sipb/rsaixbin/xfig | grep lp
lp %s -oPS
lp %s -d%s -oPS
lp %s -oPS %s
lp %s, -d%s -oPS %s

bill-the-cat:~/courses/6.037/ps4% strings /mit/sipb/linuxbin/xfig | grep lp
lpr %s -J %s
lpr %s -J %s -P%s
lpr %s -J %s %s
lpr %s -J %s -P%s %s

	--- Erik

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