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- 4. _K_n_o_w_n__P_r_o_b_l_e_m_s__a_n_d__W_o_r_k_a_r_o_u_n_d_s
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- Known problem with the product and ways to work around them.
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- +o The Printer Manager is not able to determine if a user
- is a "privileged" user and always prompt for a root
- password when adding or deleting a printer. Exceptions
- are if the Printer Manager is run by the root user or
- if there is no root password for the system.
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- +o The Printer Manager does not accept control characters
- in the password field when it prompts for a password.
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- +o When printing using the bsd print sub system a print
- clients hostname is limited to 32 bytes.
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- +o When _m_a_n -_t is used to print a man page and the print
- server is running Impressario 1.2 the following message
- will be logged in /var/spool/lp/log: _U_n_k_n_o_w_n _c_o_m_m_a_n_d
- _l_i_n_e _o_p_t_i_o_n :: -_m_a_n_p_a_g_e. The man page will still be
- printed. Impressario 2.0 (and higher) supports the
- -manpage option.
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- +o The _P_r_i_n_t_P_a_n_e_l (_g_l_p) program accepts filenames that
- begin with a '$' sign. Typically these filenames
- reference environment variables (e.g. $HOME/foo).
- However, if a filename is specified that begins with a
- '$' and does not have a directory component (e.g. $foo)
- and there is no file or environment variable
- corresponding to the filename and the program was
- launched from a shell window, the _P_r_i_n_t_P_a_n_e_l program
- will hang. The same is true of filenames beginning with
- the '#' character. Note that this only effects
- _P_r_i_n_t_P_a_n_e_l programs launched from a shell window and
- not from the File Manager or desktop. The occurrence of
- these types of filenames is rare and the need to print
- such files is even more rare. There are two
- workarounds. First, if you are printing a filename
- that begins with '$' or '#', escape the character
- (.e.g. $foo should be specified as \$foo). The second
- workaround concerns dealing with a hung _P_r_i_n_t_P_a_n_e_l. If
- the program hangs you can simply kill it from the shell
- in which it was invoked.
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- +o If two _P_r_i_n_t_P_a_n_e_l programs request a printer specific
- options panel for the same printer at the same time, it
- is possible for one options panel to appear over one
- _P_r_i_n_t_P_a_n_e_l while being managed by the other _P_r_i_n_t_P_a_n_e_l.
- The effect of this is that when one _P_r_i_n_t_P_a_n_e_l is
- iconified, the options panel for the other _P_r_i_n_t_P_a_n_e_l
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- is removed from the screen and vice versa. This problem
- does not effect the setting of printer specific
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- +o The busy cursor may not return to normal after a
- printer specific options panel is displayed by the
- _P_r_i_n_t_P_a_n_e_l program or the _P_r_i_n_t_e_r _M_a_n_a_g_e_r. This does
- not effect the operation of the options panel. The
- problem exists only with the options panels provided by
- certain third party printer products.
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