Subject: Re: standard-printer is a list ?

From: Beth Peterson <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1996 15:25:35 -0500

On 22 Jul 1996, Avery Earle wrote:

|Now, the setup printer screen looks (in part) like this
|-------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| Standard UNIX print command
|      Using this option may require setting your "PRINTER" or "LPDEST"
|      environment variable using the standard UNIX utilities.
|        Printer List: ""                      lpr -Pthis
|                      ""                      lpr -Pthat
|                      ""                      lpr -Pother
|
|-------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|Question:  are those quote marks surrounding some descriptive
|text, and how do I specify that?
|
|Regards.

From what I have noticed is that the new versions will ask for the name of the
printer and then the print command.  What happens when you actually enter in a
printer name, instead of leaving it blank, when you go to print it will tell
you which printer you are printing to.  In other words if you entered in the
name Pthis for the lpr -Pthis the confing screen would look like this:

Printer list: "Pthis"		lpr -Pthis

and then when you go to print the print message will say:
message sent to printer Pthis. 

Beth Peterson
bethp@fnal
Physics Department