Re: patch for cups printers

[Michael Cardenas]

Yes, Duane Clark pointed this out already.

Apparently, the lpr that shpis with lindowsOS is incomplete for some
reason. We're looking into fixing it. I just submitted the patch because
I think it is more correct, and there is a possibility that other
systems that have cups might not have complete lpr implementations.

On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 09:42:07PM +0200, Joerg Mayer wrote:
> Just a very late addition to this discussion: I'm using cups 1.1.12 from
> Suse 8.0 and "cat file | lpr -Pprintername" works fine.
>
> ciao
>          J?rg
> > - if (!strncmp("LPR:",pszOutput,4))
> > - if (!strncmp("CUPS:",pszOutput,5))
> > -
> >  sprintf(psCmd,"|lp -d%s",pszOutput+5);
> > - else if (!strncmp("LPR:",pszOutput,4))
> >   sprintf(psCmd,"|lpr -P%s",pszOutput+4);
> > else
>
> --
> Joerg Mayer                                          
> I found out that "pro" means "instead of" (as in proconsul). Now I know
> what proactive means.