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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uunet!newsflash.concordia.ca!news.mcgill.ca!homer.cs.mcgill.ca!bremner From: bremner@cs.mcgill.ca (David BREMNER) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: setting up printer.. Date: 18 Nov 1994 20:52:54 GMT Organization: Computational Geometry Laboratory, McGill University Lines: 27 Message-ID: <3aj476$sqa@homer.cs.mcgill.ca> References: <3a8e0j$ru@ucsbuxb.ucsb.edu> <CzF9qq.rJA@ns1.nodak.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: muff.cs.mcgill.ca In article <CzF9qq.rJA@ns1.nodak.edu>, Mark Tinguely <tinguely@plains.NoDak.edu> wrote: >In article <3a8e0j$ru@ucsbuxb.ucsb.edu> loren@beauty.ucsb.edu (Loren Koss) writes: >> >>How do you print under FreeBSD? >edit the file /etc/printcap. have it say something like: [deleted] >make sure to make the directory /var/spool/printers/lpd and change ownership >and group of it to daemon. > I found that printing was much faster when I switched /dev/lpt0 to polled IO mode (lptcontrol -p /dev/lpt0). I dunno if I have a crappy parallel port (it's on one of those serial 16550/parallel/game cards) or what, but it used to take 10 minutes to print a page of TeX on a deskjet 540, and it now takes seconds. (FreeBSD 1.1.5.1) db -- bremner@cs.mcgill.ca