[net.micro.att] title for lp

mark@gizzmo.UUCP (mark hilliard) (09/22/86)

Has anyone tried using the -t option with lp on the 7300? No matter
what I try I cannot get my system to gererate a title page for a spooled
print.  The man states that a lp -ttext file will generate the title page.
What have I missed?



                               Thanks

                              Mark Hilliard

                    seismo!rochester!kodak!gizzmo!mark

adam@mtund.UUCP (Adam V. Reed) (09/24/86)

> Has anyone tried using the -t option with lp on the 7300? No matter
> what I try I cannot get my system to gererate a title page for a spooled
> print.  The man states that a lp -ttext file will generate the title page.
> What have I missed?
>                                Thanks
>                               Mark Hilliard
>                     seismo!rochester!kodak!gizzmo!mark

You missed putting the line

/usr/bin/banner "$2" "$3"

at the head of the appropriate printer script in
/usr/spool/lp/interface. Why don't you try it?

			Adam Reed (mtund!adam)

dbw@ariel.UUCP (DAVE B. WOOD) (09/26/86)

> Has anyone tried using the -t option with lp on the 7300? No matter
> what I try I cannot get my system to gererate a title page for a spooled
> print.  The man states that a lp -ttext file will generate the title page.
> What have I missed?

Seems like Convergent put in their own idea of what lp
should be like.  This includes leaving out lots of what lp
is supposed to do (including knowing the invoking user id).

The title is actually only left out of the lp interface
script, which is easy to fix.  The rest requires rebuilding
the real lp from a 5.0 or 5.2 source.

Dave Wood