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[ILUG] printer question

[ILUG] printer question

Niall O Broin niall at magicgoeshere.com
Mon Nov 13 18:21:31 GMT 2000


On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 02:57:22PM +0000, Pamela O'Shea wrote:


> printer LaserJet disabled -
>         Unable to open parallel port device file: No such device printer
> 
> I was getting this same error with lpr, and i have kernel parallel support
> in, so any1 know what the story is please ? ..thnx

Is it as simple as an entry in printcap like

lp=/dev/printer

in the expectation that /dev/printer -> /dev/lp0 (or whatever) ?




Regards,


Niall




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