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From: John Murphy <jfm@blueyonder.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Printing - it should be easy, shouldn't it?
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 16:00:19 +0100
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Philip Pereira wrote:

>Am trying to get something printed from FreeBSD - but nothing seems to =
come
>out. I've tried sending itmes such as:
>
># echo hello > /dev/lpt0
>
>But I get nothing!

It's all explained in the handbook at:
<http://www.uk.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/printing.ht=
ml>

This section should be particularly helpful:
<http://www.uk.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/printing-in=
tro-setup.html#PRINTING-TESTING>

John.

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