[cups.bugs] [LOW] STR #3616: lpoptions has non-intuitive and undocumented behavior.

Patrick kc7zzv at gmail.com
Sat Jul 10 13:57:47 PDT 2010


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Right now if I run "lpoptions -o optionName" it replaces the current option
with "true".  I would expect cups to return the option's value.

Right now the man page says:
-o option[=value]
     Specifies a new option for the named destination.

I think the best fix would be to make "-o optionName" return the value of
the option, but this would break backwards compatibility.

Another option would just be to clarify the man page.  This keeps
backwards compatibility, but keeps a behavior that I don't think is
useful.

Link: http://www.cups.org/str.php?L3616
Version: 1.4.3





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