[cups.general] -Z - Switch for "lpr"

[Michael R Sweet]

On Jun 12, 2009, at 4:56 AM, Daniel Spannbauer wrote:
> Hello,
>
> for the old Printing-Systems (in my case plp) there was sthe
> Commandline-Switch "-Z" which (according to the man-Page):
> -Z options
>             Pass  the specified options to the print spooler.  Used
> when 	    additional or specialized information must be provided to  
> 			
>    the spooler.
>
> Is that Switch anywhere for cups-LPR?

"man lpr", or read the "printing options" help on your local system (http://localhost:631/help/options.html 
).

In short, "-o" is used for options.  The original Berkeley  
implementation of lpr did not support generic options, and we opted to  
use "-o" for options for consistency with "lp" instead of "-Z" or any  
of the other letters the various LPR clones added.

That said, when printing *to* an LPD queue, NO OPTIONS ARE PASSED  
THROUGH since the LPD protocol does not provide a standard way to do  
so...

>
> I'm printing from Cups to a old plp-Printing-System and have to give
> some Options to the plp-System.
>
> Regards
>
> Daniel
>
>
>
>
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Michael R Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer