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Date:      Thu, 15 Nov 2001 10:57:01 +1300
From:      Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz>
To:        Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: remote printing between 2 networked FBSD systems....
Message-ID:  <20011115105701.A60286@jonc.itouch>
In-Reply-To: <200111142019.fAEKJpt17352@tao.thought.org>; from kline@tao.thought.org on Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 12:19:50PM -0800
References:  <200111142019.fAEKJpt17352@tao.thought.org>

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On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 12:19:50PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
> 
> remote|Sample remote printer:\
>         :sh:\
>         :rm=tao.thought.org:sd=/var/spool/output/tao.thought.org:\
>         :lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:\
>         :if=/usr/local/libexec/hpif
> 
> 
> 	Anybody see what I need to add?  The missing "@" where the 
>   dot is makes no difference.  Either way, same:
> 
> 
> 
> zen# !lpr
> lpr printcap
> lpr: lp: unknown printer

If you don't specify a printer, lpr will look for one named "lp". So
all you need to do is to tweak your first line so that it looks like:

    remote|lp|Sample remote printer:\

Cheers.
-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz>
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