Smitty,
the -K option is valid, do a man on lpr. I rely on these posts and their
accuracy in the course of my learning Linux. It is important that all posts
responding to queries be accurate,,,I don't mean to criticize, but everyone
needs to be careful to give out qualified answers and not 'off the cuff'
responses. The bug remains.
Michael C. Rock
> -----Original Message-----
> From: slug@nks.net [mailto:slug@nks.net]On Behalf Of Smitty
> Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 4:46 PM
> To: slug@nks.net
> Subject: Re: [SLUG] bug in RH7.1 lpr
>
>
> Mike,
> That is not the correct lpr option. I don't even think -K is a
> lpr option at
> all. The proper option for multiple copies is -# followed by
> the number of
> copies without a space.
> I suggest you use lprng rather than lpr as it has many useful
> features for
> network printing as well as adjunct utilities to enhance it moreso.
> Smitty
>
> On Tuesday 12 June 2001 12:44, you wrote:
> > Have I found a bug in RedHat's implementation of lpr. When I use the -K
> > option to specify multiple copies I get a fatal error stating
> that "max 1
> > copies allowed"
> > This has really screwed up my programs where multiple copies of purchase
> > orders are to print!!
> >
> > Has anyone else seen this?
> >
> > Michael C. Rock
>
>
>
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