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Re: Printing with lpr on an IRIS

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From: Dave Olson
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 08:51
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In <34908@adm.brl.mil> blbates@aero36.larc.nasa.gov (Brent L. Bates ViGYAN AAD/TAB) writes:

| Mehmet D Ertas <ertas@athena.mit.edu> writes:
|     "SGI supports printing with lpr only if the printer's on
|      a non-sgi machine, but not vice versa, as far as I can tell."
| 
|      Hogwash!  We have printers on SGI's and Sun's and use lpr exclusively

No, it isn't.  Once again folks, remember that there is a *big* difference
between "works", and "is supported".
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Let no one tell me that silence gives consent,  |   Dave Olson
because whoever is silent dissents.             |   Silicon Graphics, Inc.
    Maria Isabel Barreno                        |   olson@sgi.com
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