From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 9 13:01:29 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA06262 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 9 Jan 1996 13:01:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA06240 for ; Tue, 9 Jan 1996 13:01:18 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id NAA03577; Tue, 9 Jan 1996 13:02:43 -0800 Date: Tue, 9 Jan 1996 13:02:43 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Chris Warth cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: printer and parallel port problems In-Reply-To: <199601090045.QAA23758@well.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 8 Jan 1996, Chris Warth wrote: > Can anyone suggest a simple test to see if the parallel port is even > working? In the meantime I'll try to load windows to see if that can > talk nicely to the printer. Find a big (>1 pg) document and cat it out: cat bigdocument > /dev/lpt0 If it prints then it's not your printer. I'd recommend checking out the Printing guide in the Handbook. It goes through setup and testing step-by-step, very well put together IMHO. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@gladstone.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major