Wayne, You are quite correct that a google search using your search terms immediately provided the answer to my question, which arose from a bug in the documentation (#512098). I assumed (wrongly) that CUPS was broken, and so googled with the wrong search terms.
The tools you point to were of little help, for none of them explicitly said that dvi printing requires cups-bsd rather than the cups package, although now that I know that to be the case, I can see that the documentation might imply that. While the error report said it could not find the lpr command, a) the documentation with the cups package did not tell me it _didn't_ supply lpr, which I incorrectly assumed it did, and b) that dvi couldn't find the printer configuration file when in fact I knew it existed led me to assume that CUPS was broken and for that reason could not find lpr. The Debian Reference was new to me and looks to be very helpuful, but I did a quick look for this issue in it, and it does not explicitly say (at first glance), that the cups package does not supply lpr and so does not support printing with dvi. It simply gives an example of printing using lpr. I understand your frustration with questions raised by folks who do not trouble to figure things out for themselves. But the highest virtue of an educator, as you call yourself, is forebearance. As any educator will tell you, people often don't pursue things on their own because they lack the general framework needed to define the question in a way that implies what is a meaningful answer, lack a sense of direction in which a question needs to be pursued, or do not fully understand the documentation even when the answer stares them in the face. I did struggle with the problem before raising the question, such as googling, looking at the cups package documentation, and looking to see if there was a PRINTER variable. Why AUCTeX/dvi relies on the BSD command instead of vanilla CUPS is still a mystery. Everything else managed to print with the cups package (one app. didn't, but since I normally use it with a2ps, I didn't pursue the reason). I was focused on whether I had installed CUPS properly and whether it was a broken installation. In retrospect, the situation seems simple enough, but that is with the wisdom of hindsight. Haines Brown -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
