[10530] in Athena Bugs
rt 7.4H (and other machines): lpr, -a option, man page
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (sethf@Athena.MIT.EDU)
Thu Jun 3 14:12:33 1993
From: sethf@Athena.MIT.EDU
To: bugs@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 93 14:12:19 EDT
System name: frumious-bandersnatch
Type and version: RTPC-ROMPC 7.4H
Display type: apa16
What were you trying to do?
print, charging to an account number.
What's wrong:
I looked up the syntax in the man page. It reads
lpr [ -Pprinter ] [ -#num ] [ -a account ] ...
What should have happened:
It should read
lpr [ -Pprinter ] [ -#num ] [ -aaccount ] ...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
There is no space after the -a. If you put a space there, it
treats the account number as a file to be printed.
lpr -Pprinter -a <account number> gives the error message
"lpr: cannot stat <account number>"
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
lpr(1)
