wleeson@indigo.ie writes:

> 	Thanks all for your help. I was hoping there was a better
>  solution than removing the old lp* programs ahh well.

As i said, there *is* another way.  You can use cups-lpd and
configure /etc/printcap to talk to that.  Then the system lp*
programs will work just fine.  Seems like a roundabout way to do
things though; just replacing the system lp* programs is easier.

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