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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!dxcern!tifrvax.tifr.res.in!bhiksha From: bhiksha@tifrvax.tifr.res.in Subject: NetBSD 0.9: Connecting a dot-matrix printer on lpt2 Message-ID: <6DEC93.10103375@tifrvax.tifr.res.in> Sender: news@dxcern.cern.ch (USENET News System) Organization: Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1993 10:10:33 GMT Lines: 23 I want to put a dot-matrix (Epson FX 100) on the LPT1 (lpt2 of dos). I am not very familiar with the printcap stuff, so i pulled the following out of a sun 3 and modified the device: lp|ex|fx 100:\ :lp=/dev/lpt1:sd=/var/spool/lpd:\ :br#9600:mx#0:lf=/var/spool/lpd/lpd-errs:\ :ms=crtscts:sh:\ :tr=\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\ .... Firstly, when i do a cat filename >/dev/lpt1 i get status 0 device busy (this is what i get for lpt0 too, though i have nothing connected there) What exatctly do i do to get the thing working? My knowledge of devices and printcaps is restricted to what i get in the manpages. thanks bhiksha bhiksha@arjun.csc.tifr.res.in