From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 19 11:20:17 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id LAA04784 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 19 Jul 1995 11:20:17 -0700 Received: from fslg8.fsl.noaa.gov (fslg8.fsl.noaa.gov [137.75.131.171]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id LAA04778 for ; Wed, 19 Jul 1995 11:20:15 -0700 Received: by fslg8.fsl.noaa.gov (5.57/Ultrix3.0-C) id AA08941; Wed, 19 Jul 95 12:20:14 -0600 Received: by emu.fsl.noaa.gov (1.38.193.4/SMI-4.1 (1.38.193.4)) id AA17075; Wed, 19 Jul 1995 12:23:35 -0600 Date: Wed, 19 Jul 1995 12:23:35 -0600 From: kelly@fsl.noaa.gov (Sean Kelly) Message-Id: <9507191823.AA17075@emu.fsl.noaa.gov> To: jackson@cs.odu.edu Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: (message from Hal Jackson on Wed, 19 Jul 1995 13:40:01 -0400 (EDT)) Subject: Re: FreeeBSD 2.0.5 (fwd) Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >>>>> "Hal" == Hal Jackson 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/: 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