[cups.general] lp documentation error?

[Michael R Sweet]

Opher Shachar wrote:
> Hello,
> The lp documentation
> 
>     http://www.cups.org/documentation.php/doc-1.3/man-lp.html
> 
> indicates that
> 
>     -H resume
>        Specifies when the job should be printed. A value of immediate will print the file immediately, a value of hold will hold the job indefinitely, and ...
> 
> It was my understanding, from this wording, that '-H immediate' will override a server-side job-hold-until-default - but it doesn't (instead the code sets "job-priority=100").
> I think the documentation should be clearer... (or perhaps the code should also set "job-hold-until=no-hold")

"-H immediate" means "print the job immediately", however IPP has no
notion of this so it currently just sets the priority to 100 so it
has the best chance of being printed next/first.

Also adding an implicit "job-hold-until=no-hold" does make sense -
please file a bug for this...

Thanks!

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Michael R Sweet                        Senior Printing System Engineer