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(VAX) Version 6.3B: pdpr & pdpq vs. default printers

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John T Kohl)
Wed Nov 15 09:48:25 1989

Date: Wed, 15 Nov 89 09:47:38 -0500
From: John T Kohl <jtkohl@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
System type, version:	(VAX) Version 6.3B
System name:		lycus
What's wrong:

pdpr seems to have some notion of a default printer in E40; pdpq does
not.  [the default in E40 seems to be nil].  I do not have anything even
vaguely similar to PRINTER in my environment.

Binaries from /usr/athena/{pdpr,pdpq}, 6.3B AFS testers packs

[{1}lycus:/mit/kerberos/doc/crypto89]
% pdpr paper.PS
[{1}lycus:/mit/kerberos/doc/crypto89]
% pdpq
pdpq: default: unknown printer
Exit 1               pdpq
[{1}lycus:/mit/kerberos/doc/crypto89]
% pdpq -Pcalvin
Service provider = ravs
No Jobs
[{1}lycus:/mit/kerberos/doc/crypto89]
% pdpq -Pnil
Service provider = e40_server
LocalId Global Id               Owner           Job Title               JobState
================================================================================
55      e40_server-627144074    jtkohl          paper.PS                Active
Exit 1               pdpq -Pnil
[{1}lycus:/mit/kerberos/doc/crypto89]
%

What should have happened:

The two should be consistent in either providing or refusing a default
printer.

John

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