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Date:      Sun, 7 Apr 2002 18:19:49 +1200
From:      Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
To:        roddierod <roddierod@yahoo.com>
Cc:        Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Help with setup up printer
Message-ID:  <20020407181949.A37074@grimoire.chen.org.nz>
In-Reply-To: <20020407041610.AA58437B400@hub.freebsd.org>; from roddierod@yahoo.com on Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 11:07:29PM -0500
References:  <20020407015657.E31B937B405@hub.freebsd.org> <p05101500b8d571911957@[128.113.24.47]> <20020407041610.AA58437B400@hub.freebsd.org>

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On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 11:07:29PM -0500, roddierod wrote:
> On Saturday 06 April 2002 22:55, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> > At 8:49 PM -0500 4/6/02, roddierod wrote:
> > >As far a I can tell I have setup everything correctly according
> > >to the  handbook, but printing is not working for me.
> > >
> > >lpr gives me the error.
> > >		lpr: lp: unknown printer
> > >
> > >here is my /etc/printcap:
> >
> > Hmm.  Is that the entire printcap file?  
> 
> yes this is the entire file minus the header comments I made.
> 

Make sure the last comment line before your printer definitions
doesn't end with a "\".
-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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