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From: digdon@yohoho.org (Mike Digdon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Printing problems
Date: 23 May 1996 23:26:12 GMT
Organization: Yohoho and a bottle of rum
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Lpr/lpd is behaving very strangely for me. When booted into DOS mode, my
printer prints normally (ie: fast). However, when printing using lpr, my
printer prints a line, pauses anywhere from 3 to 10 seconds and then prints
the next line.
Here is my printcap entry:
lp|local line printer:\
:lp=/dev/lpt0:sd=/var/spool/output/lpd:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:\
:pw=80:sh:
The file I want to print actually prints, but it takes 20 minutes instead of
20 seconds. It used to work with 2.0.5 with no problems.
Any suggestions?
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*** Mike Digdon - digdon@yohoho.org ***
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