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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!mcsun!uknet!stl!robobar!ibmpcug!adrian From: adrian@ibmpcug.co.uk (Adrian Hall) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: How can I print on my parallel printer? Message-ID: <BuB0yD.An3@ibmpcug.co.uk> Date: 9 Sep 92 09:27:49 GMT References: <colin.716015692@marsh> Organization: The IBM PC User Group, UK. Lines: 19 In article <colin.716015692@marsh> colin@marsh.cs.curtin.edu.au (Colin Manning) writes: >Hi, > I've applied the patches in unofficial/williams/lpt.*.haug. > > I still can't print. I have a Panasonic KPX1180 (80 col, 9pin) >attached to LPT1. When I boot under DOS (yuk) the printer head jumps about, >but I get nothing from 386BSD. You need to make the /dev/lp and /dev/lpt1 nodes. mknod /dev/lpt1 c 15 64 ln -s /dev/lpt1 /dev/lp Adrian -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Adrian Hall Connect Systems Manager adrian@ibmpcug.co.uk The IBM PC User Group Tel: +44 81 863 1191 Harrow, London, UK