Using the -U option of lpadmin

[Tim Wright]

In <1991Apr23.032816.6656 at jwt.UUCP> john at jwt.UUCP (John Temples) writes:


>Has anyone gotten lpadmin -U to work?  I've tried configuring a new printer
>with:

>lpadmin -p printer-name -U system-name

>where system-name is a uucp-connected system.  Print requests get mail
>back complaining about stty errors; it doesn't appear that any attempt
>was made to connect to the remote system.  I'm just using
>uux system-name!lp for now, but this would be a nice feature to get
>working.

The description "system name" is a misnomer in the manual. Dial string would
be nearer the mark i.e. this is intended for a remote printer attached to
a modem. It does not allow printing onto e.g. the default printer on another
system. Pity, since the latter would have been useful, whilst the former is
not very (IMHO :-). You are doing the best way possible.

Tim
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