Hi! Nice to talk to you at Lisa.
> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Nov 29 03:35:48 2000
> Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 11:05:47 +0100
> From: Christoph Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> CC: Waltraut Niepraschk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: LPRng: lpstat bug not fixed in 3.7.1beta2
>
> hi Patrick,
>
> we had discussed this already further:
>
> the behaviour of LPRng has changed, independent from the other 8
> versions of lpstat
> it may look like a small cosmetic thing but in large environments there
> are 100's of scripts and,
> even worse 100's of commercial applications depending on this behaviour.
> E.g. Oracle application don't
> print reports anymore because they perform a lpstat on the queue and get
> irritated about the
> additional 2 lines in the response. This leads me to stupid things like
> installing wrapperscripts on
> ~1.200 UNIX machines. You asked me a few weeks ago to check your beta
> release (3.7.1beta2) and there is still an additional line in the lpstat
> response:
>
> > > >>>printer pubps2 unknown state. enabled since Nov 09 11:12 2000. available
>
> I'm looking forward to meet you at LISA perhaps we could talk about the
> conditions for a support contract ...
>
>
> regards Christoph
>
>
>
>
> hi,
>
> in former versions of lprng I was forced to use lpstat -p<printername>
> to get the status. LPRng 3.6.26 is behaving different, I'm running into
> big trouble with this behaviour, for ex Oracle doesn't print any
> >reports
> etc...
>
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