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Date:      Wed, 10 May 2000 12:31:55 -0400
From:      Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
To:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Looking for advice on lpr/lpd changes
Message-ID:  <v0421010eb53f36b37d37@[128.113.24.47]>
In-Reply-To: <v0421010bb53f1baa2310@[128.113.24.47]>
References:  <v0421010bb53f1baa2310@[128.113.24.47]>

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At 10:23 AM -0400 5/10/00, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
>I was thinking of having lpr understand options given in a
>printer name.  Thus, for printer 'myptr', you could send to:
>    lpr -Pmyptr        (obviously...)
>    lpr -Pmyptr-h
>    lpr -Pmyptr-m
>    lpr -Pmyptr-mh  or -Pmyptr-hm   (both would work).
>This would not allow them to set ANY option via the printer
>name, but it would allow those two, which are the most ones
>most often requested.

People have mentioned that they already have hyphens in
printer names.  How about if I use a / instead?  Eg:
      lpr -Pmyptr/h
      lpr -Pmyptr/m

Would anyone have slashes in a printer name?  Any other
suggestions also welcome...  Just looking for a good way
for samba (WinXX) users to select -h or -m options when
their jobs go thru our unix print servers.


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Garance Alistair Drosehn           =   gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer          or  drosih@rpi.edu
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute


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