Kai Henningsen wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jakob 'sparky' Kaivo) wrote on 29.06.99 in <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]>: > > > Printing commands - cancel, lp, lpstat, pr > > Divergence: These commands are not required by LSB. Instead, the BSD > > printing commands (lpq, lpr, lprm, lptest, lpc, lpd, lpf, and pac). > > Rationale: These commands are from the System V style of managing printers. > > Linux-based operating systems tend to use the BSD family of printing tools. > > lprNG contains > > /usr/sbin/lpd > /usr/sbin/lpf > /usr/sbin/lpbanner > /usr/sbin/readfilecount > /usr/sbin/removeoneline > /usr/sbin/authenticate_pgp > /usr/sbin/setupauth > /usr/sbin/lpc > /usr/bin/lpq > /usr/bin/lprm > /usr/bin/lpr > /usr/bin/checkpc > /usr/bin/lpraccnt > /usr/bin/lp > /usr/bin/lpstat > /usr/bin/cancel
Not to belabour the point =again=, but what about UNIX98? Are we only going to tend towards UNIX98 when it is convenient (which it would be here since both System V and BSD commands are available, or are we going to tend in that direction all the time? As regards BSD v. System V, the Shadow Suite is modelled after System V ... -- Julie.
