[13685] in Athena Bugs
sun4 7.7R: lpr -p
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Barker)
Tue Jul 25 10:34:33 1995
From: Mike Barker <mbarker@MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Cc: mbarker@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 1995 10:33:59 EDT
System name: gulch
Type and version: SPARC/Classic 7.7R (1 update(s) to same version)
Display type: cgthree
What were you trying to do?
print a mail message from emacs19 mh-rmail
What's wrong:
apparently "lpr -p" is not working on suns.
if you setenv LPROPT "-z" the zephyr report shows an error.
you can do
athena% lpr -p file
and it will also fail.
What should have happened:
message should have printed
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
man lpr shows that -p should cause pr to be used to format
the file.
temporary workaround: in .emacs, do
(defvar mh-lpr-command-format "lpr -J '%s'")
this removes the -p
you can also do
(defvar mh-lpr-command-format "enscript -J'%s'")
which uses enscript to do the formatting
