quoting Andrew Gabriel (24 Sep 2006 10:12:18 GMT):
> In article ,
> Dick Hoogendijk writes:
>> Anybody has a clue on why slrn makes a mess after giving it the "y"
>> command to print an article?
>>
>> The difference wit i.e. FreeBSD is that on solaris slrn prints a message
>> on the bottom of the screen: "Printing article...request id is lp-20 (1
>> file)"

> Probably because lp outputs this confirmation text, but lpr doesn't.

Problem solved. I used the name of the printer (set printer_name) in
..slrnrc like in FreeBSD it's called 'lp' No prob in fbsd.
Changing it to: "set printer_name lpr" solved my problem.
No garbage anymore. Only bad naming from slrn. Printer_name would be
better called "printer_program"

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