[14363] in Athena Bugs
Re: lpr and lpq
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (The Elven Knight)
Tue May 28 13:35:37 1996
To: "David B. Wilson" <dbwilson@DRAGONFLY.MIT.EDU>
Cc: linux-help@MIT.EDU, bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 28 May 1996 10:06:31 EDT."
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Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 13:31:14 EDT
From: The Elven Knight <elf@MIT.EDU>
> I've hooked up a printer to my Linux machine, which has the athena versions
> of lpr and lpq, but I can't print to it using athena's lpr, and have to use
> /usr/bin/lpr.
Your problem stems from the fact that the Athena versions of lpq and lpr
don't support local printers. As a result, you have to use /usr/bin/lpr for
local printing and /usr/athena/bin/lpr for Athena printing.
The easiest way to deal with this is to rename /usr/athena/bin/lpr to alpr
or something like that (that goes for lpq and lprm also). If you don't like
this, try setting up your printer as a remote printer -- I think that might
enable you to use the Athena lpr (not sure though). Also, if you're
desperate, you can get the Athena lpr source off Athena and hack around it...
--
Mieszko Lis / Ubi enim est cor tuum, ibi est et thesaurus tuus.
The Elven Knight / -- Mt 6:21 (paraphrased)
