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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!spool.mu.edu!yale.edu!ira.uka.de!math.fu-berlin.de!unidui!du9ds3!veit From: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de (Holger Veit) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: LPT problems in 386BSD - HELP! Date: 12 Sep 92 10:20:59 GMT Organization: Uni-Duisburg FB9 Datenverarbeitung Lines: 23 Message-ID: <veit.716293259@du9ds3> References: <abeech.716211632@kraken> Reply-To: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de NNTP-Posting-Host: du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de In <abeech.716211632@kraken> abeech@kraken.itc.gu.edu.au (Adrian Beech) writes: >Greetings! >I've installed the lpt patch as suggested by many readers of this group. I >now cat print using the `cat <file> >/dev/lpt' command with no problems. >However when I use the lpr command all I get is the banner page and then the >system falls over. Has anyone else had the same trouble? >-- >Adrian V. Beech E-MAIL: A.Beech@ext.gu.edu.au Recompile lpd/lpr. In particular, if you also have done the kvm.c patches to make ps running, it is recommended to rebuild all applications that use libutil.a (A dozen or so, lpd is one of them). Holger -- | | / Dr. Holger Veit | INTERNET: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de |__| / University of Duisburg | BITNET: veit%du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de@UNIDO | | / Dept. of Electr. Eng. | "No, my programs are not BUGGY, these are | |/ Inst. f. Dataprocessing | just unexpected FEATURES"