From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 25 23:45:31 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 4303937B401 for ; Sun, 25 May 2003 23:45:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mx1.lphp.org (APastourelles-107-1-21-66.w81-51.abo.wanadoo.fr [81.51.116.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BF8C43F93 for ; Sun, 25 May 2003 23:45:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ajacoutot@lphp.org) Received: from sta01 (sta01.lphp.org.local [192.168.0.4]) by mx1.lphp.org (8.12.8p1/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h4Q6jSUG073673; Mon, 26 May 2003 08:45:28 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ajacoutot@lphp.org) From: Antoine Jacoutot To: Garance A Drosihn , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 08:45:27 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 References: <200305251647.06054.ajacoutot@lphp.org> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200305260845.27687.ajacoutot@lphp.org> Subject: Re: foomatic+lpd 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: Mon, 26 May 2003 06:45:31 -0000 On Monday 26 May 2003 06:33, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > When printing a job, there can be two hosts involved. There is > the host you send the job from (ie, where you typed 'lpr'), and > the host which actually prints the job to the final device. For > most users, these are the exact same machine. Well, it isn't the case for me. > Assuming both machines are running freebsd's 'lpr' (or that there > is only one machine, and it is running freebsd's 'lpr'), then you > probably should use the -J option. OK, but it does not seem to work. As I understood, it is supposed to pass option to the filter, but this is not what it says in the LPR man page. > You may notice that the 'lpr' command has a -Z option. This is > only useful if you have two machines, and if the machine which > does the actual printing to the final device is running LPRng. > Even then, I am not 100% sure that 'lpr -Z' on freebsd is exactly > the same as 'lpr -Z' when using LPRng. OK I understand.