How do I turn off the lpr GUI

[Laura Conrad]

>>>>> "Tony" == Tony Arnold <tony.arnold at manchester.ac.uk> writes:

    >> 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?

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

    Tony> 	ls -l `which lpr`

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

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


Thanks, that was it. 


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