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From: bhiksha@tifrvax.tifr.res.in
Subject: NetBSD: Connecting a printer on the lpt port.. repost of question (beg pardon)
Message-ID: <8DEC93.15153130@tifrvax.tifr.res.in>
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Organization: Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Date: Wed, 8 Dec 1993 15:15:31 GMT
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I had posted this request before, but i'm not sure if i have recieved
any replies because the mailer on my machine screwed up. I just set it
right. Pardon me if this gets a bit monotonous and please reply if you
can...:
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