[Evolution] Printing problems: another mystery

["Steven P. Auerbach" <STEVEN P AUERBACH saic com>]

All
I continue to be baffled and surprised by the fact that the standard
print dialog doesn't work. As I stated below, if I enter "lp.cups" in
the "custom" "location", printing works. But if the "location" is "lpr"
printing does not work. Here's why I'm baffled:
If I type 
$ which lpr, I get the answer
/usr/bin/lpr
So lpr invokes /usr/bin/lpr.
Now I do
$ ls -l /usr/bin/lpr, and I get the answer
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           23 Oct 13 11:10 /usr/bin/lpr ->
/etc/alternatives/print
So lpr is soft-linked to /etc/alternatives/print.
If I do
ls -l /etc/alternatives/print
I find that
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           17 Nov  4 13:17
/etc/alternatives/print
-> /usr/bin/lpr.cups
So /etc/alternatives/print is soft-linked to /usr/bin/lpr.cups.

Thus, the command lpr should, indirectly, invoke lpr.cups. Now, I can
print a file using lpr.cups, from the command line in a terminal,so I
conclude there is nothing wrong with lpr.cups.  Why, then, doesn't
printing work? 

Here's another oddity: if I use "location" = lpr.cups in the print
dialog, printing does not work, even though lpr.cups itself works just
fine!

Obviously, I'm missing something here, but I don't know what. Any
suggestions?

Steve


> It turns out the appropriate print command is "lp.cups". If I choose
> "custom" for "location" (in the print dialog), and then enter "lp.cups"
> for the custom location, the email gets printed. Now, the next question
> is how to have this happen automagically, without having to go through
> editing the print dialog every time I want to print an email? I suppose
> I could alias "lpr" to lp.cups, but I don't know what unintended
> consequences this would have. Also, am I the only one with this problem?
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