Jack Carroll <mykrowatt@comcast.net> writes:
> The Software Users Manual says the lpr command has the same -o
> options as the lp command. For the past several years, that was true.
> Starting with this version, the lpr command rejects the -o argument
> as a syntax error.
$ dpkg -S /usr/bin/lpr
cupsys-bsd: /usr/bin/lpr
Make sure you are using the lpr from cupsys-bsd.
> The lpr man page agrees with this behavior. For the version
> installed by sarge, the -o option worked on lpr, but the man page didn't
> show it.
> It appears that CUPS has reverted the lpr command syntax to emulate
> the old BSD lpr command, but has not updated the Users Manual to reflect
> this change.
Some software (e.g. the GIMP Print plugin) relies on "lpr -o raw".
This change will also affect these packages.
What syntax should be used in place of "-o raw" to send raw print data
to lpr (assuming this is not a regression or the wrong lpr package)?
Regards,
Roger
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