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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
Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2001 21:39:55 +0000
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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>
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