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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!wupost!csus.edu!netcom.com!alm From: alm@netcom.com (Andrew Moore) Subject: Re: /dev/lp and LARGEW configurations Message-ID: <40tnz7h.alm@netcom.com> Date: Fri, 11 Sep 92 02:29:57 GMT Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest) References: <5717@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP> Lines: 15 In article <5717@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP> dri@gl.pitt.edu (Paul) writes: >I have a quick question about the lp.c patch in the unofficial/terry >directory on agate.berkeley.edu for 386bsd-0.1. > >I have applied the patch to the various files and double checked the >changes, and when I build a new kernel with the GENERICISA configuration >I get a reboot after trying to print something to /dev/lp (I did mknod). > >More exactly the printer starts to spit out a ROOT banner page and then >the system softreboots. I am using Eric Haug's lpt driver, but if you haven't already done so, you might try recompiling lpd (/usr/src/usr.sbin/lpr/lpd/lpd.c). Before I did this reboots would occur when printing control characters. -Andrew Moore <alm@netcom.com>