On 12 Nov 2002 07:27:27 +0100 Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 01:08:17AM -0500, Scott Henson wrote: > > On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 00:54, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > > > what to do now? > > > > > try to print something? > > echo "test" | lpr > > does nothing! You may possibly need to send a form-feed character to the printer to eject the paper. I think you can do this with printf 'test\f' | lpr Rupert