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In article <ramsey.728092533@moonshine> ramsey@sundance.llnl.gov (Susanne B. Ramsey) writes:

>   I have tried several ways of accessing from the SGI some printers that are
>   either on non-SGI systems or have network interfaces.. I am doing this so 
>   that users can print from the Workspace and not have to worry about issuing
>   commands at the command line..   
>
>   The only success I have had is by doing the following:
>
>   creating a file with the following in /usr/spool/lp/model
>
>	   #! /bin/sh
             :
             :
>	   files="$*"
>	   i=1
>	   while [ $i -le $copies ]
>	   do
>		    for file in $files
>		    do
>			    lpr -Pqmsps "$file"
>		    done
>		    i=`expr $i = 1`
>	   done
>	   exit 0
>
>

In article <ramsey.728094282@moonshine> ramsey@sundance.llnl.gov (Susanne B. Ramsey) writes:

>   Another problem related to this that I am having...
>
>   when I tried to send a file to one of the "network" printers I got into
>   some sort of a loop and started sending out about 900 copies of /etc/printcap

I am using the similar way with a shell script a bit different from
Susanne's; like

	#!/bin/sh
	#
	NAME=
	TYPE=Dumb
	seqid=$1
	name=$2
	title="$3"
	copies=$4
	options="$5"
	shift; shift; shift; shift; shift
	files="$*"

	lpr -Plpr_printer -#$copies $options $files
	exit 0

This will call 'lpr' once even if I need 900 copies. 
I can specify lpr options (except -m option) as -o'lpr-options'
like

    % lp -dlpr_printer -o'-p -T test' files

Even if you add lpr's -m option, you will *not* recieve a mail
upon completion, but the mail will be sent to user 'lp'.