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Off-line Printing (one side)

To send an output to a PCN supported printer, use the command:

lpr -[option] filename

from a Unix shell command prompt.

Note: you may also specify the path of the printed file as well.

To send the output to a specific printer, use -P [printername] in the option field. For example, to print a file named foobaa.ps to babbage printer (default), the following command is used:
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Install Cups as your printing system. (Many Linux systems have cups as the defualt printing system.)
Downloads of RPMs and source are available at www.cups.org

FreeBSD users can build Cups from the ports. (print/cups-base, print/cups-lpr)
Debian Linux users, run 'apt-get install cupsys-bsd'.
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Oftentimes, trying to access directories such as----

/net/fileserver/project/YYY/

Will result in an error message like:

cd: /net/fileserver/project/YYY: No such file or directory

This does not mean that your project area 'YYY' is gone or moved.

This happens when an automounted filesystem (anything under /class, /project, or /home) is not mounted. To access any of the /class, /project, or /home areas, you need to refer to them as a subdirectory of /class, /project or /home. (/project/YYY, no…
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You are probably generating output in your .bashrc or .tcshrc/.cshrc file. Scp becomes confused by any terminal output.

The solution is to remove all output from non-interactive login scripts. man bash (or tcsh if you've changed your shell) for details on the necessary changes.
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Using vacation to have auto-responded messages sent when you recieve email is still available on the new PCN systems, as it was previously on london. Some differences are important to note:

1. Put your message in a file called .vacation.msg. Users that are used to the vacation program on london might notice a couple of differences, most notably, the version of vacation installed does not expand variables in the vacation.msg file, like $SUBJECT. This file should be in the following format:
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