[9642] in Athena Bugs
Suppressing header sheets on W20-575 printers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard J. Barbalace)
Thu Jul 16 15:43:53 1992
To: bugs@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 92 15:43:42 EDT
From: Richard J. Barbalace <rjbarbal@Athena.MIT.EDU>
Hello. Someone suggested I send this problem here instead of to hotline.
In my .environment file, I have the following:
# No header sheet and zephyr notification upon completing printing
setenv LPROPT "-h -z"
This should prevent the header sheet from being printed when using "lpr" and
send a zephyrgram back to me whenever one of my print jobs has completed.
This works properly on most printers, including bias and lw-sipb.
However, on the printers ceres, python, and ajax in W20-575 (and possibly on
the other w20-east-* printers which I've not yet checked), setting LPROPT as
above only sends a zephyrgram: it fails to suppress printing the header sheet.
I've tested this from several of the new machines in W20, both Maxines and
the Dec/133s, and this problem has proven to be repeatable.
I have no idea if this is a bug in "lpr", a hardware problem with the printers
themselves, or something else. I hope you can track this down and correct the
problem quickly. Thanks.
- Richard
