[17142] in Athena Bugs
Re: Netscape/Acrobat/lpr
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Sun Sep 5 22:28:26 1999
To: "Roger A. Roach" <rar@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
From: amu@MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Date: 05 Sep 1999 22:28:12 -0400
In-Reply-To: "Roger A. Roach"'s message of "Sun, 05 Sep 1999 21:11:26 -0400"
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"Roger A. Roach" <rar@MIT.EDU> writes:
> 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
Perhaps I wasn't clear. lp (which comes from SysV) has *always* used
-d to indicate the printer name, just as lpr (which comes from BSD)
has always used -P.
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Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC <amu@mit.edu> (finger amu@monk.mit.edu)
