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From: tanner@cdis-1.compu.com (Dr. T. Andrews)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.unix.i386,comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: lpadmin(8) question
Summary: tired old complaint
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Date: 5 Jun 90 15:33:36 GMT
References: <453@van-bc.UUCP>
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In article <453@van-bc.UUCP> sl@van-bc.UUCP (Stuart Lynne) writes:
) What I wanted was for file1 to be printed, followed by file2.
) What I got was file1 intermingled with file2 being printed. 
A reasonable parallel port driver would probably only allow one
"open" to succeed unless the printer had two print heads.

You could probably arrange to use the failed open() to defer
the second file.
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