On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Bryan K. Wright wrote: > Hi folks, > > For years, I've been deploying machines with empty printcap > files, and letting users specify the printer like this: > > lpr -P printer1@printserver file.ps > > (Or, if they setenv PRINTER to "printer1@printserver" they > can just type "lpr file.ps".) This worked great with LPRng, but now > I'm playing around with FC2, which uses CUPS, and trying to figure > out how to accomplish the same thing. > > The CUPS version of lpr doesn't seem to allow me to specify > the print queue and server on the command line. Is there a way to > do this? Install LPRng :). This is what I do. I tried a RFE with the CUPS developers a while back about 'printer@machine%port'. This sugestion was turned down (if I remember correctly) because CUPS can have @,% or other chars in the print-queue-name. They said this feature would be added to the 'lp' version of the tools - but I haven't verified this. Satish
