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From: jasonp@dbase.A-T.COM (Jason Pan)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: dbase for unix question
Keywords: dBASE
Message-ID: <1991Jun5.185010.8654@dbase.A-T.COM>
Date: 5 Jun 91 18:50:10 GMT
References: <1084@arccs2.fed.FRB.GOV>
Followup-To: db4unix@dbase.a-t.com
Organization: Ashton-Tate
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In article <1084@arccs2.fed.FRB.GOV> m1tlm00@fed.frb.gov (Tim Medley) writes:
>We're running dBASE for unix 1.1, Sun 4's, SunOS 4.1.1.  Whenever I try to 
>print a report from the Control Center, after dBASE's messages indicating
>successful printing, the following messages from lpr overlay the Control
>Center, and the print job never reaches the queue:
>
>	lpr: missing argument for 'P'
>	lpr: Fatal error- option 'P' missing argument
>
>Yeah - looks like the "-P" option might be messed up.  Here's the "config.db":
>
>*
>*       dBASE IV Configuration File
>*       Friday May 24, 1991
>*
>
>PDRIVER              = POSTSCRI.PR3
>PRINTER 1            = POSTSCRI.PR3 NAME "Apple Laser" DEVICE SPOOLER arcpr2
>
>[other information deleted]

Assuming "arcpr2" is a printer defined in your /etc/printcap, replacing
"DEVICE SPOOLER arcpr2" with "DEVICE arcpr2" in your config.db will work.

Jason Pan
Software Support
Ashton-Tate