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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Problems with /dev/lpt0
Date: 20 Jul 1995 10:44:38 +0200
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In article <3uhq69$asj@cmcl2.nyu.edu>,
Joseph Steinberg <steinber@slinky.cs.nyu.edu> wrote:
>I am having a similar problem with my HP-4 with PostScript added
>I can cat a PS file into /dev/lpt0 and it prints but lpr and lp don't work.
>
>I am looking for an answer.

Please explain "don't work".  (error log output [/var/log/lpd-errs],
printcap setting etc.)

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