Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 09:16:37 +1200 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 Message-ID: <20010807091637.B59676@itouchnz.itouch> In-Reply-To: <3B6EAF10.111FEE77@i-clue.de>; from so@i-clue.de on Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 04:52:00PM %2B0200 References: <F136eolj8Jecd92bXCH00000c28@hotmail.com> <3B6EAF10.111FEE77@i-clue.de>
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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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