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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.
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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
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