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RT 64a: enscript/lpr and printer names

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Fri Dec 1 20:25:02 1989

Date: Fri, 1 Dec 89 20:23:09 -0500
From: Ilhamuddin Ahmed <ilham@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: henry@GARP.MIT.EDU
Cc: testers@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Henry Mensch's message of Fri, 1 Dec 89 17:28:35 -0500 <8912012228.AA15574@GARP.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: ilham@ATHENA.MIT.EDU

>	Date: Fri, 1 Dec 89 17:28:35 -0500
>	From: henry@GARP.MIT.EDU (Henry Mensch)
>	X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (6.5.6 6/30/89)


>	now that lpr and friends are palladium clients, someone should inform
>	the populace that the *-gateway printers won't necessarily do the
>	right things with the lpr suite anymore:

>	77 garp ~ --> enscript -2rGqPnil-gateway /tmp/henry/RHubert.Mail
>	lpr: nil-gateway: unknown printer
>	78 garp ~ --> enscript -2rGqPnil /tmp/henry/RHubert.Mail

I did over a week ago to staff@athena but I will send another one soon
as quite a few people didnt seem to read their mail...sigh!!

- Ilham

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