On Sat, 6 May 2006, William L. Maltby wrote: >> cat xxx.png | lpr > > Try "lpr <filename>" > > Avoids the process for a filter (cat) which is doing nothing for you. While this is true in Centos, if one moves between *nix implementations, it is an unsafe habit to have (using lpr directly), as in early Unix implementations, lpr is occasionally set to _delete_ the file it has just completed printing. -- Russ Herrold