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Date:      Mon, 16 Nov 1998 14:25:48 -0800 (PST)
From:      Bryce Newall <data@dreamhaven.net>
To:        Aaron Parmelee <trout@net66.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: set up printing
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.96.981116142458.15750y-100000@ds9.dreamhaven.org>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19981116131203.008f8360@net66.com>

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On Mon, 16 Nov 1998, Aaron Parmelee wrote:

>  another group member informed me of what i feared. my printer, like my
> modem, requires windows drivers. a winprinter. i looked at the box it came
> in, and it even touts itself as designed for windows. hooray for hollywood.

So it won't just accept raw input, eh?  Has to come from a special driver?
How lame. :/

>  all is not lost. i'm going to pick up a cheap black and white printer and
> slip it into LPT2.

Ok, sounds good.  Just remember, in FreeBSD, LPT2 is /dev/lpt1.  :)

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