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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!blackbush.xlink.net!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Serial printer problem Date: 27 Dec 1996 19:31:43 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 24 Message-ID: <5a186v$df1@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <59hgs0$mof@surz03fi.hrz.uni-marburg.de> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33195 Schramer@Informatik.uni-marburg.de (Peter H. Schramer) wrote: > I try to connect a printer to a UNIX workstation. They are connected > via a serial port. Baud rate does match. If I use the "lp" printing > services everything is fine. The Printer prints as I like to. But > if I try to use the same printer withe the "lpr" service the attempt > to print fails. > If I try to print the date with "date > /dev/tty007"... You aren't speaking about FreeBSD. There's no /dev/tty007 in FreeBSD, and while we have lp(1), it's simply a wrapper around lpr(1), sitting there to satisfy Posix.2 requirements. Sorry, we are probably unable to solve your problem with another UNIX system. You should also note that lp and lpd on SysV systems are mutually exclusive, and use a totally different setup. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)