[17141] in Athena Bugs
Re: Netscape/Acrobat/lpr
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roger A. Roach)
Sun Sep 5 21:11:33 1999
Message-Id: <199909060111.VAA01894@rar.mit.edu>
To: amu@MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Cc: "Roger A. Roach" <rar@MIT.EDU>, bugs@MIT.EDU,
"Roger A. Roach" <rar@MIT.EDU>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "05 Sep 1999 19:21:36 EDT."
<udlwvu56j27.fsf@quiche-lorraine.mit.edu>
Date: Sun, 05 Sep 1999 21:11:26 -0400
From: "Roger A. Roach" <rar@MIT.EDU>
I figured that out. What I don't understand why change the convention
now and why only for lp. Also, why doesn't lp detect that a printer
name is not really a page range and produce some sort of error
condition that could be displayed. This was really non-intuitive.
> <rar@MIT.EDU> (Roger A. Roach) writes:
>
> > You can ignore the previous bug report from me. I figured it out. Silly
> > me, I thought you would use "-P {Printername} to specify the printer. In
> > reading the man file I see we now use "-d" for destination.
>
> lp -dfoo is equivalent to lpr -Pfoo.
>
> --
> Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC <amu@mit.edu> (finger amu@monk.mit.edu)
