Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2001 21:39:55 +0000 From: "George Genovezos" <ggenovez@hotmail.com> To: jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Printer problems -- lpr: lp: unknown printer Message-ID: <F57iSnRMWuLn5U9T3TG0000390c@hotmail.com>
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Thx, I'll try this on out tonight but I'm not to sure if this will fix all my probs. I forgot to mention that when I do a cat /etc/houst > /dev/lpt0 It pauses for a while but nothing happens. Any hint? Thx >From: Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz> >To: George Genovezos <ggenovez@hotmail.com> >CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: Re: Printer problems -- lpr: lp: unknown printer >Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 09:16:37 +1200 > >George Genovezos wrote: > > > cat /etc/printcap > > > > lp | lexmark | Lexmark Printer: > > :lp=/dev/lpt0: > > :mx#0:px#0:ph#0:sh:lf=/usr/adm/lpd-errs: > > :sd=/var/spool/lpd.lexmark: > > > > [snip] > > > > Any hints or do I watch the printer go splat? > >Take out the whitespace in your first line label, and put in the >trailing backslashes on everything except the last line. > > lp|lexmark|Lexmark Printer:\ > :lp=/dev/lpt0:\ > :mx#0:px#0:ph#0:sh:lf=/usr/adm/lpd-errs:\ > :sd=/var/spool/lpd.lexmark: > >is that your printcap should look like. >-- >Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz> >------------------------------------------------------------------------ >"We laugh in the face of danger, we drop icecubes down the vest of fear" > - Edmond Blackadder III > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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