SUMMARY: lp permissions...

[Claude Cantin]

About ten days ago, I asked if one could print, using "lp", a file
with permissions "700", as

    lp -ddecwriter filename

The consensus is that NO, it cannot be done, but that

    cat filename | lp -decwritter
    lp -ddecwriter < filename

will both work!

One of the replies (Jeff hanson - tohanson at gonso.lerc.nasa.gov) was kind
enough to send the following C-Shell script he had got from (dave Carek,
eddc at opus.lerc.nasa.gov):

    # !/bin/csh
    set last = `echo $#argv`
    set file = $argv[$last] 
    @ x = `echo $#argv` - 1
    set options = `echo $argv | cut -d" " -f1-$x` 
    cat $file | lp $options

You may call that script "/usr/local/bin/tlp" and use that command instead
of "lp", or alias "lp" to "tlp"...

This seems to work fine for me...

Another reply, from Dan Karron (karron at nyu.edu), mentioned that (apparently)
there is a complete rewrite of lp in the next version of IRIX...

Thank you for all who replied,

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