[CentOS] Default printer environment variable

Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu m3freak at thesandhufamily.ca
Fri Apr 27 01:51:11 UTC 2007


On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 16:27 -0400, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote:
> The docs for the client state that it reads the default printer
> environment variable to figure out which printer to print to on the
> local side.  What's the default printer environment variable?  $PRINTER?
> I'm lost on this one since I've never had to set it before.  
> 
> I know that I can create a ~/.lpoptions file and put the default printer
> in there, but that's not going to work with this IBM 5250 emulator.

Does anyone know what the "default printer environment variable" is on
Red Hat based systems?  Is there such a thing?

Regards,

Ranbir

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