lpr/cups (was laptops)

Sun Jul 25 10:43:30 PDT 2004

Quoting richard childers / kg6hac (fscked at pacbell.net):
> In defense of a venerable piece of software that has endured for over 
> two decades:
> 
> An adept UNIX administrator should be able to requeue jobs to another 
> printer queue through any number of mechanisms without having to resort 
> to a graphic user interface, in my humble opinion - there is nothing 
> inherent in lpr(1), lpd(8) or lpc(8) that keeps one from carrying out 
> such an operation.

An adept administrator.

Vs. a secretarial level person.  Vs. a guy at the printer who has
given up on getting ol' ps1 to work.

10 years ago I was bored with requests, taking me from my *real*
work, asking me to redirect the ps1 queue to ps2.

While there's "nothing inherent" in the package that keeps me
"from carrying out the operation", there's nothing in the package
that enables or aids people in doing so.