On Sun, 04 Apr 2010 06:13:20 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 2010-04-04 05:57, Camaleón wrote:
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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?
In todays systems I fail to see a clear difference on both :-?
This article may help:
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8.17 Printing Protocols (lpr and lp)
http://docstore.mik.ua/orelly/networking/firewall/ch08_17.htm
The System V lp printing system doesn't really have a remote printing
component. When it does remote printing, it usually does it by handing
the job off to a BSD lpr printing system, or by using the BSD rsh command
(which is often called remsh on System V systems, because such systems
have another program called rsh that does something else entirely).
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