[15048] in Athena Bugs
Acrobat plugin lp/lpr lossage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Tue Apr 1 23:37:47 1997
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 1997 23:37:37 -0500
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Cc: cwis-dev@MIT.EDU
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
I feel like Greg stole my thunder here. How disappointing :-)
The new acrobat plugin for Netscape is broken-in-our-environment
because it tries to print using "lp" (at least under IRIX, prolly
under Solaris, too).
"Obviously", the correct fix here is for Development to have included
a working "lp" on system V systems, because lots of things expect lp to
work properly and be The Interface for printing.
At least, releng points the finger at Development :-)
Anyhow, the acrobat plugin should be fixed to use lpr until lp is available.
CWIS people should remember to test essential functions (like printing!)
when installing new software (s/installing/creating dependancies on/).
--jhawk
