[cups.general] lpr printing problem

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On Jan 17, 2007, at 18:19 , Peter Flynn wrote:

> Kimmo Hedman wrote:
>> Hi,
>> any ideas for my printing problems? I'm running debian etch 2.6.18-3
>> with cupsys 1.2.7-2 pkg, all other printing works ok  
>> (firefox,Kate,test
>> page from cups, etc.) but not from command line lpr (e.g. adobe  
>> reader
>> uses that).
>
> I got this too: lp/lpr looks in the /etc/printcap and wants to use the
> first name it finds for each entry. If that's a long name with spaces,
> like CUPS lets you use, it dies.

Wouldn't the correct answer here be to install cupsys-bsd in place of  
whatever lpr you're currently using?

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