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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!paladin.american.edu!constellation!smasilam From: smasilam@mailhost.ecn.uoknor.edu (Senthilamudhan Masilamani) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: line printer help Date: 14 Sep 1994 17:10:35 GMT Organization: University of Oklahoma, Engineering Computer Network Lines: 24 Message-ID: <357aqb$buu@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu> References: <Cw4ous.HH6@westminster.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: roosevelt.ecn.uoknor.edu X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #9 (NOV) bermudj@westminster.ac.uk (Tony Bermudez) writes: >The following is a request for assistance for a friend. Could you mail >responses to me, please? Thanks in advance. >BSD Release 0.1 by William & Lynne Jolitz [01.1.46 08/02/88 10:40] >This is a plea by a user of the above operating system on a PC, attempting >to attach a hard copy device to the system at Port LPT1. Under normal BSD >one would edit the /etc/printcap file putting in the apropriate entry, >followed by the usual change of status of the spol directory assigned >to this printer and finally ending with > /etc/lpx start lp >On investigation the printcap file on this system contains the line: > lp:local:lineprinter:\ > :lp = /dev/lp:sd= /var/spool/lpd: lf=/var/log/lpd-errs: replace /dev/lp with /dev/lpt0 for lpt1 and /dev/lpt1 for lpt2, and it just might work. sm