Re: cupsys works, lpr does not
Emma Jane Hogbin <emmajane@xtrinsic.com> writes:
> On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 11:12:28AM -0800, Greg Madden wrote:
>> The best success I think is having 'only' cups installed, no LPR stuff
>> installed. From your account it seems cups worked from the browser tool but
>> it appears you had LPR stuff installed at the same time. Start fresh,
>> purge all printing systems except cups. It looks like you are not using
>> Woody so I can't say how to fix the conflicts issue.
>
> There are too many things (like browsers, muttprint, etc) that want to use
> lpr. I had everything working nicely before my system hosed, so I'm sure
> it's possible. I'm also pretty sure that I configured everything with
> cupsys (i.e. even printcap for lpr). That's what has me totally confused
> about why it's not working this time.
You can install cupsys-bsd, it has a "cups" version of lpr. That
basically acts like the cups program lp.
Bijan
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