Re: cups lpr just a cut-down lp?

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 2010-04-04 05:57, Camaleón wrote:
> On Sat, 03 Apr 2010 19:37:39 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
>
> > I know that lpr is BSD and lp is SYSV, so lpr is needed for
> > compatibility, but when comparing the man pages, lpr seems to only be a
> > "half-the-features" lp.
>
> It seems to have less options, yes.
>
> But both ("lp" and "lpr") are included in CUPS

lpr is in cups-bsd and lp is is cups-client.

>                                                so I see no problem here, 

I never said there was one.

> we can use whichever best suits our needs.

Right.

But, absent old or cross-platform scripts which need to run on both 
Linux and BSD, what *benefit* does lpr have over lp?

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