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From: tinguely@plains.NoDak.edu (Mark Tinguely)
Subject: Re: setting up printer..
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Date: Thu, 17 Nov 1994 17:25:37 GMT
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In article <3a8e0j$ru@ucsbuxb.ucsb.edu> loren@beauty.ucsb.edu (Loren Koss) writes:
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>How do you print under FreeBSD? I have a laserjet 4 sitting hooked up
>and it is just collecting dust ($1400 worth of it actually!).. Thanx for
>any help.. I tried just redirecting to /dev/lpt0, but that didn't work
>correctly. lpr says that printer lp couldn't be found..
edit the file /etc/printcap. have it say something like:
lp|localp|local line printer:\
:lp=/dev/lpt0:sd=/var/spool/printers/lpd:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:\
:af=/var/log/lp.acct:
make sure to make the directory /var/spool/printers/lpd and change ownership
and group of it to daemon.
lpr to print a file
lpq to list print jobs
lprm to remove jobs from the print queue.
--mark.