Re: centos] How to print

[herrold at owlriver.com (R P Herrold)]

On Sat, 6 May 2006, William L. Maltby wrote:

>> cat xxx.png | lpr
>
> Try "lpr <filename>"
>
> Avoids the process for a filter (cat) which is doing nothing for you.

While this is true in Centos, if one moves between *nix 
implementations, it is an unsafe habit to have (using lpr 
directly), as in early Unix implementations, lpr is 
occasionally set to _delete_ the file it has just completed 
printing.

-- Russ Herrold