[17143] in Athena Bugs
Re: Netscape/Acrobat/lpr
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roger A. Roach)
Sun Sep 5 22:31:51 1999
Message-Id: <199909060231.WAA01933@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 22:28:12 EDT."
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Date: Sun, 05 Sep 1999 22:31:41 -0400
From: "Roger A. Roach" <rar@MIT.EDU>
That is clearer. Thank you.
Roger
> "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.
>
> --
> Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC <amu@mit.edu> (finger amu@monk.mit.edu)
