Re: Printing

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Hello

Did you make sure that you have printer support in kernel. Once I had the
problem then I recompiled kernel with printer support and everything was
fine...
Nikhil

On Fri, 19 Jun 1998, Tod Detre wrote:

> I'm having problems printing. I have a laserjet compatible. I can get it
> to work by running gs and having it directly output to /dev/lp1 so I know
> the print/port is set up right, but when I try to use lpr I get nothing.
> I'm using magicfilter and at this point I'm just trying to get postscript
> to work. I've included a copy of my /etc/printcap and the configfile for
> magicconfig. 
> 
> -- Printcap
> 
> # You can use the filter entries df, tf, cf, gf etc. for
> # your own filters. See /etc/filter.ps, /etc/filter.pcl and
> # the printcap(5) manual page for further details.
> 
> lp|BIGBOY:\
>         :lp=/dev/lp1:\
>         :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
> #        :df=/etc/filter.ps:\
> #        :tf=/etc/filter.pcl:\
> #       :af=/var/log/lp-acct:\
> #      :lf=/var/log/lp-errs:\
> #        :pl#66:\
> #        :pw#80:\
> #        :pc#150:\
> 	:if=/var/spool/lpd/lp/filter:\
>         :mx#0:\
>         :sh:
> 
> # rlp|Remote printer entry:\
> #         :lp=:\
> #         :rm=remotehost:\
> #         :rp=remoteprinter:\
> #         :sd=/var/spool/lpd/remote:\
> #         :mx#0:\
> #         :sh:
> 
> -- filter
> 
> #! /usr/sbin/magicfilter
> default filter /usr/bin/gs -q -dSAFER -sDEVICE=laserjet -dNOPAUSE -sOUTPUTFILE=-
> 
> 
> --
> 
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>           | Godd?" -Me
> 
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