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Conference kernel::unix_printing

Title:Printing from UNIX
Moderator:KERNEL::COFFEYJ
Created:Thu Dec 17 1992
Last Modified:Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:956
Total number of notes:2876

955.0. "Can I set the username with lpr?" by AXPBIZ::ROSE () Thu Jun 05 1997 06:27

    I'm trying to port a shell script that is used as an input filter for
    a printcap entry.  The script expects to be able to pass the username
    argument on to another lpr command to put the correct username on the
    flag page.  The platform that I'm porting this from seems to have a -U
    switch on the lpr command to control this.  Is there anyway to emulate
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