How do I turn off the lpr GUI

[Tony Arnold]

Laura,

On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 17:11 -0400, Laura Conrad wrote:
> I want to just say:
> 
>   lpr -P<printer name> -#<number of copies> <filename>
> 
> and have it just happen, without popping up that GUI.  (so
> that I can print from a script).  How do I do that?

That's weird. If I type the above in a terminal window I don;t get the
GUI pop up. You may want try:

	ls -l `which lpr`

to find out if lpr is linked to somewhere else. On my machine I get:

ls -l `which lpr`
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 9820 2006-08-03 09:54 /usr/bin/lpr

Regards,
Tony.
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