[18184] in Athena Bugs
printing from netscape / lp doesn't read stdin
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert A Basch)
Thu Aug 24 19:23:51 2000
Message-Id: <200008242323.TAA06447@aupair.mit.edu>
To: bug-infoagents@MIT.EDU, bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 19:23:46 -0400
From: Robert A Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU>
When I tried to print a document from netscape (4.61) on my 8.4 sgi
machine, the dialog came up with "Print Command" set to "lp", instead
of "lpr".
I don't recall doing anything to have changed this setting in netscape.
I did "grep -i print" on ~/.netscape/preferences.js, and got no
output; after I changed the setting to "lpr", the same command output:
user_pref("print.print_command", "lpr");
Also, the lp command failed with a usage diagnostic, apparently
because our lp emulator script requires a filename on the command
line. I'll submit a patch to fix this, assuming that its failure to
handle reading from standard input is not intentional.
Bob
