xfig default print command to 'lpr'

John L Fjellstad john-ubuntu at fjellstad.org
Mon May 21 21:07:41 UTC 2007


"Yuelin Li" <liy12 at mskcc.org> writes:

> I can export the file to .eps and print with a PostScript printer.
> But I'd like to be able to print directly to the printer.  It seems
> that xfig uses 'lp' instead of 'lpr' by default.  That's probably what
> is causing the problem.  Does anyone know how to solve this problem?
> Can I solve it by changing 'lp' to 'lpr'?  And how?

Install cupsys-client.  It should be installed already, but if not, just
install it.
cupsys-client gives you lp
cupsys-bsd gives you lpr

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John L. Fjellstad
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