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From: wjw@ebr.eb.ele.tue.nl (Willem Jan Withagen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Softlinks for lpd??
Keywords: lpr, lpd, softlinks, SR10.2
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Date: 24 Jan 91 17:35:19 GMT
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A question:
	Has anybody tried to print through lpr/lpd with the -s switch
	of lpr? or the -i?

When I do so things really get messed up.
The -i switch doesn't work at all.

The -s switch gives so the message the the file to print was not linked to
the original file. whatever that can be. :(
The header of the file is spooled further to /com/prf ......,
but nothing of the actual file gets printed.

I started using SUN's PC-NFS and this is the default way to print files
with lpr. It took me a while to find out what was going on.
But you can reproduce it by going like:
	lpr -i -s /etc/printcap

	Willem Jan Withagen.

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