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Charles Lindsey

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Oct 27, 2009, 3:58:37 PM10/27/09
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I am running Opera 9.25 Sp;aros om a Sparc.

I have an email, and I attempt to print it. It offers me the various
available printers (in my case 'lex' on the local system and 'hp' over
the network), plus the option of using a local program.

So I select 'hp', and it outputs the command

lp hp -o A4 -o media=A4

and pipes some postcript to it. Which looks reasonable on the face of it,
excpet that is NOT a valid lp command. It SHOULD have said

lp -d hp -o A4 -o media=A4

OTOH, I could swear that, on some occasions, I have seen it issue exactly
that. So what is going on, and exactly where in the opera implementation
is the information about the correct command to issue?

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