Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 18:46:16 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>, FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: lpr Job Name Message-ID: <p05111701b9a6c5232acc@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0209112008330.44410-100000@wonkity.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0209112008330.44410-100000@wonkity.com>
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At 8:20 PM -0600 9/11/02, Warren Block wrote:
>Google shows that numerous people over the last few years have
>wanted the ability to change the job name.
>
>I'm considering adding a -N option to lpr to set this. The first
>problem I can see is that if the user prints multiple files
>(lpr -Nmyjob file1 file2 file3), such a name option would be
>questionable. Should it set the same name for each file?
>Maybe only the first one?
This is an interesting idea. I'm operating on very little sleep
after a very long night, but let me think about this and see what
I would suggest.
>The question is: has anyone else got a better idea or a workaround?
>
>(These particular files are going to a network printer/copier that
>stores them. A user walks up to the printer, selects their jobs,
>and prints them. However, twenty files called "Standard input"
>really makes it difficult for them to prioritize. 8-)
If they're named "standard input", then someone is doing:
someprog | lpr -Pblah
A simple and mindless workaround would be to:
someprog | cat > /tmp/$USER/NameIWant
lpr -r -Pblah /tmp/$USER/NameIWant
This could run into problems in some cases where an 'lpr -N' won't,
and that skips over a few bells and whistles that you'd want. But
I wrote it the way I did so that you'd see it's easy to write that
(plus some bells and whistles) into a quick script. Call the
script 'mylpr', and users could use it instead of the lpr command.
--
Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu
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