Date: Sat, 5 Aug 1995 13:27:42 -0600 From: kelly@fsl.noaa.gov (Sean Kelly) To: fadorno@ix.netcom.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Printer setup for a Epson Actionlaser 1500 Message-ID: <9508051927.AA13017@emu.fsl.noaa.gov> In-Reply-To: <199508051812.LAA23094@ix3.ix.netcom.com> (fadorno@ix.netcom.com)
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>>>>> "Fred" == Fred Adorno <fadorno@ix.netcom.com> writes:
Fred> I am getting an error message "unknown printer". What do I
Fred> do?
This comes from either
(1) Using lpr with the -P option with the name of a printer that
doesn't exist in /etc/printcap.
(2) Not using a -P option and having a PRINTER environment variable
that's set to the name of a printer that doesn't exist in
/etc/printcap.
(3) Not using -P nor having a PRINTER environment variable; in this
case, lpr defaults to a printer named ``lp'' and there's no
printer or alias named ``lp'' in /etc/printcap.
My guess is you're experiencing (3). To fix it, add an alias called
``lp'' to /etc/printcap. For example:
lp|epson|action|laser|Epson ActionLaser 1500:\
:lp=/dev/lpt0: ...etc...
will allow you to type any of the following commands to print:
lpr
lpr -Plp
lpr -Pepson
lpr -Paction
lpr -Plaser
lpr "-PEpson ActionLaser 1500"
--
Sean Kelly
NOAA Forecast Systems Lab, Boulder Colorado USA
I bet it was pretty hard to pick up girls if you had the Black Death.
-- Jack Handey
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