From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 18 17:30:07 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA04520 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 18 Oct 1996 17:30:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA04515 for ; Fri, 18 Oct 1996 17:30:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id RAA06836; Fri, 18 Oct 1996 17:28:38 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 17:28:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Chun man Ng cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem in setting up a printer In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.32.19961018223007.006b2498@ezenet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 18 Oct 1996, Chun man Ng wrote: > I am new user on FreeBSD. I want to setup a printer on my system. > Which file shoud I work on? I have a P166. Should I connect the printer to > the parallel port? /etc/printcap and yes if that's where your printer connects, in that order. :) Check out the Handbook; it has an excellent section on printer configuration. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major