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Re: Case 126606: Baker House printer

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew Mendelson)
Wed Nov 18 22:43:31 1998

To: hotline@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 18 Nov 1998 13:45:56 EST."
             <199811181845.NAA00791@team-usa.MIT.EDU> 
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 22:43:29 EST
From: Andrew Mendelson <asmendel@MIT.EDU>

> not sure what you mean by when in zypher mode. Printer seems to be
> working fine on our end.

Apologies about the spelling, I meant with the -z option set either in
the lpr command line or in the LPROPT environmental variable. This
produces a zephyr reporting the successful completion of a print job, or
it's failure. Also, check your results; while nothing gets reported
without the -z flag, nothing actually gets printed. I've talked to other
users, and this is not a result which is unique to my athena setup or
customizations.

The following is an example of the contents of a zephyr windowgram
generated by the -z option:

UNAUTHENTIC Personal message at 22:34:04 on Wed Nov 18 1998
From: Printer Daemon <Printer Daemon> on MULCH.MIT.EDU
To: asmendel@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Printer status for bricks:
Fatal error

I promise, it's really not working :-),
Andrew Mendelson
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