John Culleton on Thu, 19 Apr 2001 16:21:10 +0200 (CEST)


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Re: Problem with setup under FreeBSD... 



Chris Watson wrote:

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>> Never saw this one.
>> Can you "print" by concatenating an ASCII file to the printer ?
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>> 	root# cat /etc/passwd > /dev/lpt0
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> Nope. open-systems# cat /etc/passwd > /dev/lpt0
And you are dead sure it is lpt0 and not lpt1?

If so try killing lpd and then cat a file to /dev/lpt0.
Also look for something else (network etc.) that could be
  tying up the printer.
John Culleton