Nick, thank you once again. I'm not accustomed to getting advice from a lawyer at a weekend - for free. ;<}
During one of many reboots of my wife's machine (sorry if this offends anyone on the list, but with my Windows background, I still fall in the habit of rebooting to try to solve a problem), I noticed the line "Starting lpd". Wait a minute - lpd isn't supposed to be starting; cups is. I'd give the command #service lpd stop and get the response FAILED - assumed that meant it wasn't running to begin with; then #service cups start gave OK. Brute force approach: I removed the LPRng package. Voila. Now lpr works both from applications (e.g. Evolution) and from the terminal windows. Somehow the lpd daemon was still hanging around and intercepting the lpr command, and wasn't going away when I was telling it to. I still can't print on her printer from my machine, but that's got to be a network config problem I ought to be able to sort out (famous last words). =====Andrew
