On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 05:30:29AM -0500, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > On Sat, 2002-11-16 at 04:49, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 11:12:05AM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > > > On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 04:31:34PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > > > > and hey, it worked. i could actually print the test page without any > > difficulty. > > > > however, all i can do is print a test page from within lynx > > localhost:631. > > > > when i do echo "SOMETHING" > /de/lp0 either as root or as a non-root > > user, nothing happens. > Sending directly to /dev/lp0 is bypassing CUPS altogether, meaning you > don't get the necessary conversion/encoding to get the message out the > printer. Try instead: > > echo "SOMETHING" | lpr ah - got why echo "SOMETHIN" > /dev/lp0 wont work. echo "SOMETHING" | lpr results in lpr: command not found! well i checked with dselect. lpr is not installed. now, i think i am getting it slowly. do i have to add either of lpr, lpd or lprng packages? which one will you recommend? thanx yet again. sandip p deshmukh ------***--------
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