Re: [tlug] "Interesting" printing issue.

[Godwin Stewart <gstewart@example.com>]

On Sat, 07 Aug 2004 15:21:09 +0900, "Stephen J. Turnbull"
<stephen@example.com> wrote:

> Stock lpd has an option where instead of spooling, it makes a symlink
> to the original file.  lprNG doesn't believe in this opion.  I'll bet
> that there is some kind of hack to shut up lpd that is not implemented
> by the lprng clients.  Maybe you can disable that option on the server.

Actually it's the '-s' option of lpr (not lpd) that handles that. lpr(ng) is
being invoked client-side and therefore doesn't know about this.

However, I agree that the wording of the error message does make one think
of that. I did, and researched (and eliminated) it already :o)

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