Re: PCL printer cannot be accessed

[Erv Walter <erv@cne.dyn.ml.org>]

In article <19971126134149.6753.qmail@hotmail.com>,
	charles_read@hotmail.com (Charles Read) writes:
> Two questions:
> 
> 1. If I used dvihp to generate a PCL file, can I then
>    go to a DOS shell in Win95 and say:
>    c:> copy PCL.file LPT1
> 
>    I tried this, but first page was very messed up.
> 
> 2. I tried:
>     # dvihp -Plp1 text.dvi
> 
>     But got some "connection refused" message.
>     Ditto for the 'lpq' command.
> 

Please show us your printcap.  Are you using lpr or lprng?
Can you print simple text files, etc?  We need more information than
what you have given to help...

Erv

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