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enscript error messages

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Tue Feb 19 01:38:17 1991

From: kkkken@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 91 01:38:08 -0500
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU


enscript file | lpr -Pprinter results in:
[ xxx pages * 1 copy ] spooled to PostScript

and you get one page of output on your printer, containing the line:

lpr: PostScript: PostScript: unknown printer

enscript (and anything it happens to fork) should write error message
to stderr, not stdout.


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