From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 8 08:24:10 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8321537B40B for ; Thu, 8 May 2003 08:24:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp-out.comcast.net (smtp-out.comcast.net [24.153.64.115]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6C5843FA3 for ; Thu, 8 May 2003 08:24:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from zettel@acm.org) Received: from acm.org (bgp966828bgs.derbrn01.mi.comcast.net [68.41.109.203]) by mtaout02.icomcast.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.12 (built Feb 13 2003)) with ESMTP id <0HEK00LU0QO1HB@mtaout02.icomcast.net> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 08 May 2003 11:21:37 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 08 May 2003 11:21:27 -0400 From: Len Zettel To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Message-id: <3EBA75F7.ED6A617C@acm.org> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: en Subject: Re: Designating the default printer X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 May 2003 15:24:10 -0000 Thanks to all for their patient and courteous answers. At this point it is obvious I did not pay nearly enough attention to the first sentence in the second paragraph of 11.3.1.4.1 Naming the Printer in the Handbook: "At least one of the printers specified in the /etc/printcap should have the alias lp." Which does make me curious: Under what circumstances might it be useful to give more than one of the printers the alias lp, and what would happen it one did? Which one would get used for a given job? -LenZ-