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Date:      Mon, 16 Feb 1998 11:22:07 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        spork <sporkl@dti.net>
Cc:        fbsdqs <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: 722C
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980216112137.10577F-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980213153930.307A-100000@mental>

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On Fri, 13 Feb 1998, Spike Gronim wrote:

> 	When I "lptest >/dev/lpt0; echo "\f" > /dev/lpt0", as a joe schmoe
> user it says Permission denied, and as root it says "device busy". Are
> these things good or bad?

`device busy' means either the printer is offline or is working, or
something is using the port.  Is lpd running?

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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