[UFO Chicago] lprng vs. CUPS

[Nick Moffitt]

begin  Jesse Becker  quotation:
> > Debian installed the CUPS lp, but not lpr... I symlinked lpr to
> > lp...  is that bad? It made mozilla happy, although I then
> > discovered that I could tell mozilla to use lp instead of lpr.
> 
> I don't know the details, but I *think* the difference between lp
> and lpr is that 'lp' was (originally) used to print to local
> printers only, while 'lpr' submitted jobs to remote print queues for
> processing.  These days, I'm not sure it really matters since the
> distinction seems to have been sufficiently blurred.

	It's worse than that: lp was SysV and lpr was BSD.

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