Bug 1492 – lpr and mpage give different results when printing same file

Bug 1492 - lpr and mpage give different results when printing same file

Summary:	lpr and mpage give different results when printing same file

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	lpr (Show other bugs)
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Version:	5.2
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Preston Brown
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Reported:	1999-03-12 08:48 EST by tcarter
Modified:	2008-05-01 11:37 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	1999-03-31 15:10:32 EST
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Description tcarter 1999-03-12 08:48:56 EST

I am creating primt files which I print with mpage.  I
noticed that the last line is not printed.  I then printed
the same file with lpr and noticed that the first line is
missing but the last line is there.  I would like to send
the print file to you (quite small) so you can see for
yourself.

In addition, mpage does not allow the automatic removal of
print files and lpr is missing many of the features of unix
lp (-c options) which limits the printing of files to
printers like lazerjets.

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 1999-03-15 11:52:59 EST

Could you please add the printfile to this bug using
e-mail so that we can reproduce the problem? Thanks

Comment 2 Preston Brown 1999-03-18 16:40:59 EST

This sounds like the page is too long for the printer to handle to me.
What are you printing on?  does the Test Page print correctly from
inside printtool?

Comment 3 Jeff Johnson 1999-03-22 16:22:59 EST

Just to get a header so's I can append the test file to the bug ...

------- Email Received From  Jeff Johnson <jbj@redhat.com> 03/22/99 16:28 -------

Comment 4 Jeff Johnson 1999-03-22 16:35:59 EST

Here's the bug I mentioned...

Comment 5 Bill Nottingham 1999-03-22 17:16:59 EST

I get identical results with the testfile here; the last
line is chopped off both with mpage & lpr, because there's no
newline at the end of the test file.

What specific options is lpr missing?

Comment 6 Preston Brown 1999-03-31 15:10:59 EST

no real bug here.

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