On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 09:58:39AM +1000, Alan E Davis wrote:
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|      -#num   The quantity num is the number of copies desired of each file
|              named.  For example,

Duh!  I just realized what is wrong with this :  the shell uses '#' to
mean the beginning of a comment.  Everything from the '#' to the end
of the line is ignored and not passed to lpr.  Try

    lpr -\# <number> <filename>

instead and see if it works then.

HTH,
-D

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