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To: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com>
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Subject: Re: lptest
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Actualy, discoverd that printers work quite well if you have an ink cart.
in them. :)  
Just have to figure out now how best to get a non-postscript printer to
print normaly. Haven't a clue as to how to get an Epson Stylus Photo EX
To print properly. 


Keith



=================================
I here by change the name
of RedHat to RedSplat.

Keith W.
At the helm <for better or worse>
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On Mon, 1 May 2000, Kent Stewart wrote:

> 
> 
> keith@mail.telestream.com wrote:
> > 
> > I've been mucking about with a trying to get a printer rolling for a bit
> > now. I've read everything relating to it in
> > "The Complete FreeBSD 3rd edition" and can't get it to work. I keep
> > getting the following messages
> > 
> > #] lptest > /dev/lpt0
> > bash: /dev/lpt0: Device busy
> > #]
> > 
> > Why would it tell me the device is busy? The status file for lpd gives
> > this message
> > 
> > #] lptest 20 5 | lpr
> > #] cat status
> > waiting for lp to become ready (offline?)
> 
> Do a man on lpc. Sometimes you have to do things like "lpc enable all" or to down and
> up the printer(s).
> 
> Kent
> 
> > #]
> > 
> > Any ideas ?
> > 
> > Keith
> > 
> > =================================
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> > of RedHat to RedSplat.
> > 
> > Keith W.
> > At the helm <for better or worse>
> > =================================
> > 
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> -- 
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