[17623] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 8.3.23: lpr
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Mon Mar 6 10:07:08 2000
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 10:06:59 -0500
Message-Id: <200003061506.KAA23311@vorpal-blade.mit.edu>
To: Lily Kim <lilykim@mit.edu>
CC: bugs@mit.edu
In-reply-to: "[17472] in Athena Bugs"
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
Hi, sorry it's taken us so long to get back to you. A couple of
months ago, you reported the following bug:
> What were you trying to do?
> print from Netscape
> print text file using lpr in xterm
>
> What's wrong:
> doesn't seem to print
> keep getting notices:
> printer bob job lilykim@m1-142-20+736 died a horrible death.
This often means that the printer is having some troube talking to
the network, and is not indicative of a bug as much as a hardware
problem. We are working on making the error message moe helpful.
Jonathon Weiss
jweiss@mit.edu
MIT/IS Athena Server Operations
