From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 7 17:07:10 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA27480 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 7 May 1996 17:07:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fslg8.fsl.noaa.gov (fslg8.fsl.noaa.gov [137.75.131.171]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA26451 for ; Tue, 7 May 1996 16:57:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: by fslg8.fsl.noaa.gov (5.57/Ultrix3.0-C) id AA13927; Tue, 7 May 96 23:19:56 GMT Message-Id: <9605072319.AA13927@fslg8.fsl.noaa.gov> Received: by emu.fsl.noaa.gov (1.40.112.3/16.2) id AA244081191; Tue, 7 May 1996 17:19:51 -0600 Date: Tue, 7 May 1996 17:19:51 -0600 From: Sean Kelly To: jd@dax.sandiegoca.attgis.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199605071823.LAA01292@dax.sandiegoca.attgis.com> (jd@dax.sandiegoca.attgis.com) Subject: Re: HP network printing Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>>>> "Joseph" == "Joseph I Davida" writes: Joseph> Hi, Am am running freebsd2.1, and I need to be able to Joseph> print to an HP network printer and have not been able Joseph> to. I talked to a friend, who sent me a copy of his Joseph> printcap entry for an HP printer (4si), which I modified Joseph> for the 2.1 freebsd. The only problem is I dont have the Joseph> hpnp program, binary or source. Is this printcap entry Joseph> OK? Not really. Here's a corrected one: pr703|gsclj4_1|hplj4:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/hplj4:\ :af=acct:lf=/var/spool/lpd/hplj4/log:\ :lp=/dev/null:fo:sb:sh:sf:\ :if=/usr/local/etc/netprint: (I've taken out the df and vf entries---you can add those back and modify the appropriate scripts.) Joseph> Where can I get the hpnp software? You don't actually need it. Just use the `netprint' perl script from the Printing section of the FreeBSD handbook. For more details, see: file:/usr/share/handbook/handbook.html (on any FreeBSD 2.1 host) http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook.html (elsewhere) -- Sean Kelly NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory kelly@fsl.noaa.gov Boulder Colorado USA http://www-sdd.fsl.noaa.gov/~kelly/