I know I shouldn't follow up my own mail but I have tried moving the piece
of code that parses this option earlier in the code and at appears to work
(without much testing). Here is a patch. Those who know the code better
might be able to decide if it is the correct thing to do.

Cheers.

=============================================================================
Graeme Wood                                 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Unix Systems Support                        Phone: +44 131 650 5003
The University of Edinburgh                 Fax:   +44 131 650 6552
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*** lpr.c       Mon Apr  1 18:54:54 2002
--- lpr.c.new   Thu May  2 14:43:08 2002
***************
*** 88,94 ****


        /* scan the input arguments, setting up values */
!       Get_parms(argc, argv);      /* scan input args */
        if( Auth_JOB && !getenv( "AUTH" ) ){
                FPRINTF(STDERR,
                _("authentication requested (-A option) and AUTH environment variable 
not set") );
--- 88,117 ----


        /* scan the input arguments, setting up values */
!       DEBUG1("lpr: Lpr_opts_DYN '%s', argc %d", Lpr_opts_DYN, argc );
!       if( Lpr_opts_DYN ){
!               int i, j;
!
!               Split_cmd_line( &opts, Lpr_opts_DYN );
!               Check_max( &newargs, argc+2+opts.count+2 );
!               i = j = 0;
!
!               newargs.list[newargs.count++] = argv[0];
!               for( j = 0; j < opts.count; ++j ){
!                       newargs.list[newargs.count++] = opts.list[j];
!               }
!               for( j = 1; j < argc; ++j ){
!                       newargs.list[newargs.count++] = argv[j];
!               }
!               newargs.list[newargs.count] = 0;
!               if(DEBUGL1)Dump_line_list("lpr - new options",&newargs );
!               Optind = 0;
!               Getopt(0,0,0);
!               Get_parms(newargs.count, newargs.list);      /* scan input args */
!               newargs.count = 0;
!       } else {
!               Get_parms(argc, argv);      /* scan input args */
!       }
        if( Auth_JOB && !getenv( "AUTH" ) ){
                FPRINTF(STDERR,
                _("authentication requested (-A option) and AUTH environment variable 
not set") );
***************
*** 115,142 ****
        Get_printer();
        Fix_Rm_Rp_info(0,0);

-       DEBUG1("lpr: Lpr_opts_DYN '%s', argc %d", Lpr_opts_DYN, argc );
-       if( Lpr_opts_DYN ){
-               int i, j;
-
-               Split_cmd_line( &opts, Lpr_opts_DYN );
-               Check_max( &newargs, argc+2+opts.count+2 );
-               i = j = 0;
-
-               newargs.list[newargs.count++] = argv[0];
-               for( j = 0; j < opts.count; ++j ){
-                       newargs.list[newargs.count++] = opts.list[j];
-               }
-               for( j = 1; j < argc; ++j ){
-                       newargs.list[newargs.count++] = argv[j];
-               }
-               newargs.list[newargs.count] = 0;
-               if(DEBUGL1)Dump_line_list("lpr - new options",&newargs );
-               Optind = 0;
-               Getopt(0,0,0);
-               Get_parms(newargs.count, newargs.list);      /* scan input args */
-               newargs.count = 0;
-       }
        job_size = Make_job(&prjob);

      if(DEBUGL3){
--- 138,143 ----


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