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Re: sun4 8.3.27: lpr

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brad Thompson)
Fri Apr 14 17:28:50 2000

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To: Jered Floyd <jered@MIT.EDU>
cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "14 Apr 2000 17:26:30 EDT."
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Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 17:28:46 -0400
From: Brad Thompson <yak@MIT.EDU>

> > A user walks into the SIPB office, and asks how to print multiple
> > copies of something.  I show him "man lpr".   He says he tried that.
> > So I do "lpr -K 2 foo", "lpr -\#2 foo", and "lpr -\# 2 foo".
> 
> Did you try just "lpr -# 2 foo"?

That fails the same as the others (I guess my backslash was unneccessary).

yak

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