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From: h5h1@rick.cs.ubc.ca (Markus Meister)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Printing under FreeBSD 1.5.1.1
Date: 12 Aug 1994 21:36:01 -0700
Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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Not being a UNIX expert, I've been having a hard time printing to my
li'l 24-pin printer. I tried 2 different ways, with lpr and by writing
to /dev/lpt1
Both ways it prints, but extremely slowly.. the printer only prints a few
characters at a time... is this because my computer isn't very fast
(a DX2-66, as opposed to a real unix workstation), and FreeBSD just doesn't
give the printing a lot of attention, or is something set up wrong?

- Markus