> 
> On 2006.12.14 13:31:07 +0000, Steve Blinkhorn wrote:
> > lp:\
> >         :lp=:rm=ourprinter:rp=PASSTHRU:mx#0:sd=/var/spool/lpd/ln17ps:\
> >         :lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:
> 
> Would you happen to have a comment above the `lp:\' line with a
> trailing `\'?  It seems the lp* group considers a trailing '\' in
> a comment to include the next line too.
> 
> Brian.
> 
> -- 
>   Brian de Alwis | Software Practices Lab | UBC | http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~bsd/
>       "Amusement to an observing mind is study." - Benjamin Disraeli


No, it's not that.   It looks as if there have been changes that
matter though: there seems to be a new assumption that files spooled
for printers go in /var/spool/output/lpd (I have always used
/var/spool/lpd/printername), and the printer named lp for spooling
purposes seems to be treated specially.   The position of the printer
definition in the printcap file seems to make some sort of a
difference, so I think *something* of the sort you suggest must be
going on in the supplied default printcap file.

Where I am TZ=GMT, so I have to leave it for today, but since the man
page for lpc seems to be significantly different in 3.0, perhaps there
are things here I have failed to notice altogether.

-- 
Steve Blinkhorn <steve@prd.co.uk>