From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 8 23:53: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from monkeys.com (i180.value.net [206.14.136.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE762155B4 for ; Wed, 8 Dec 1999 23:53:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rfg@monkeys.com) Received: from monkeys.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by monkeys.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA03572; Wed, 8 Dec 1999 23:52:53 -0800 (PST) To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help! Simple printer problem becomes a major documentation beef. In-reply-to: Your message of Thu, 09 Dec 1999 09:35:42 +0200. <41961.944724942@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Date: Wed, 08 Dec 1999 23:52:53 -0800 Message-ID: <3570.944725973@monkeys.com> From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <41961.944724942@axl.noc.iafrica.com>, you wrote: > > >On Wed, 08 Dec 1999 18:59:21 PST, "Ronald F. Guilmette" wrote: > >> I mean geeezzz! I only want to cat a bleedin' Postscript file to my >> bleedin' Postscript printer fer cryin' out loud! Why can't I just >> do that? Why does life have to be so complicated? Why can Linux, >> straight- out-of-the-box, do this but FreeBSD (with a mostly GENERIC >> kernel) can't? > >Why must you insist on operating on a lower level than is necessary? >just bite the bullet and use lpr. It's really not that much effort. :-) Why on earth would you believe that `lpr' will work when simply cat'ing a file to /dev/lpt0 doesn't even work?? The line printer spooler is a whole complex and convoluted subsystem. But no matter how complex and sophisticated it gets, I can pretty well assure you that even it won't work if you can't even get characters down the wire and to the printer. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message