Date: Wed, 19 Jul 1995 12:23:35 -0600 From: kelly@fsl.noaa.gov (Sean Kelly) To: jackson@cs.odu.edu Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeeBSD 2.0.5 (fwd) Message-ID: <9507191823.AA17075@emu.fsl.noaa.gov> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.90.950719133851.503A-100000@flashflood.cs.odu.edu> (message from Hal Jackson on Wed, 19 Jul 1995 13:40:01 -0400 (EDT))
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>>>>> "Hal" == Hal Jackson <jackson@cs.odu.edu> writes:
Hal> Can you help with a FreeBSD 2.0.5 printing issue?
Maybe.
Hal> I can't figure out why /dev/lp is needed by lpr. The device
Hal> file is not created by installing, nor by running
Hal> /dev/MAKEDEV, nor is it even on the "live filesystem" CD #2
Hal> in the CD package.
/dev/lp is nothing more than a historical default. In your
/etc/printcap file, specify
:lp=/dev/<whatever>:
to override the default.
--
Sean Kelly
NOAA Forecast Systems Lab, Boulder Colorado USA
I can still recall old Mister Barnslow getting out every morning and
nailing a fresh load of tadpoles to the old board of his. Then he'd
spin it round and round, like a wheel of fortune, and no matter where
it stopped he'd yell out, "Tadpoles! Tadpoles is a winner!" We all
thought he was crazy. But then we had some growing up to do.
-- Jack Handey
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