From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 10 9:32:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.100.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CE1D37B89B for ; Wed, 10 May 2000 09:32:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA248038 for ; Wed, 10 May 2000 12:31:51 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 12:31:55 -0400 To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: Looking for advice on lpr/lpd changes Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message