[301] in Release_7.7_team
Software suggestion re printing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Naomi B. Schmidt)
Mon May 1 16:34:05 1995
To: miki@MIT.EDU, release-77@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 01 May 1995 16:33:40 EDT
From: "Naomi B. Schmidt" <nschmidt@MIT.EDU>
This came into the software suggestions discuss meeting, which I triage. Any
thoughts?:
[1906] daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Shabsin) Athena Software Suggestions 04/24/95 05:51 (21 lines)
Subject: lpr command line option?
To: suggest@MIT.EDU
Reply-To: shabby@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 05:51:00 EDT
From: Chris Shabsin <shabby@MIT.EDU>
How about adding a command-line option to lpr to automatically take the
printer name it would be printing to (whether it's from hesiod, the PRINTER
environment variable, or a -P option) and checking for an existant printer2
queue, and using it if it exists? This could be easily put into LPROPT by
users wanting to automatically save paper, rather than requiring kludges like
specifying -Pprinter2 on the command line, which will not work as seamlessly,
especially since the printer name can acquired by lpr from multiple sources.
It'd be a really easy change to make to the code.
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