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From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@swt...>
Subject: Re: [9fans] mpictures and ms: text before is gone
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:29:01 -0400

> Probable bug in lp? I did
> 
> 	hget ... | jpg -9 | lp -dstdout -pp9bitpost > ... # this is a school  
> project
> 	hget | lp -dstdout -pjpgpost > ... # when I realized it existed
> 
> However, there is one GIF in my project and that didn't cause any  
> problems, so it makes me wonder...

It turns out that using -p does in 
fact tickle a bug in lp that ignores
the "nohead" setting for -dstdout.
I've submitted a patch.

Until then, you don't need the -p options
anyway.  Lp can figure out what kind of
input you're giving it.

Russ