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#! rnews 1802 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!inferno.mpx.com.au!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!news.nd.edu!chi-news.cic.net!news.midplains.net!news.mhtc.net!news.mainelink.net!news.sprintlink.net!new-news.sprintlink.net!newsreader.sprintlink.net!imci3!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!csn!news-1.csn.net!csn!nntp-xfer-2.csn.net!news.boulder.noaa.gov!news From: Sean Kelly <kelly@fsl.noaa.gov> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: lpd woes Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 08:31:09 -0600 Organization: NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory Lines: 23 Message-ID: <316E692D.2318@fsl.noaa.gov> References: <4kjsfd$jl7@stout.entertain.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: emu.fsl.noaa.gov Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (X11; I; HP-UX B.10.01 9000/715) Darryl Watson wrote: > the printer will print the file. If I try to send a print job to the > printer via lpr, I get errors on the printer LED console, and nothing > happens. Probably because the lpd system by default sends plain text header pages to the printer. If that's a PostScript printer, those header pages are nothing but errors. You want to turn them off in /etc/printcap. For more information, run your favorite web browser on either of these URLs: file:/usr/share/doc/handbook/handbook.html http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook.html and look for the section called `Printing.' There's about 20000 words of thorough documentation on setting up printers, from accounting to remote printers to header pages to filters, and more. -- Sean Kelly NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory kelly@fsl.noaa.gov Boulder Colorado USA http://www-sdd.fsl.noaa.gov/~kelly/