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From: steinber@slinky.cs.nyu.edu (Joseph Steinberg)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Problems with /dev/lpt0
Date: 21 Jul 1995 18:25:16 GMT
Organization: New York University
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I get blank pages from the printer. Also, for a one page file 3 blank 
pages come out.
JS

J Wunsch (j@bonnie.heep.sax.de) wrote:
: In article <3uhq69$asj@cmcl2.nyu.edu>,
: Joseph Steinberg <steinber@slinky.cs.nyu.edu> wrote:
: >I am having a similar problem with my HP-4 with PostScript added
: >I can cat a PS file into /dev/lpt0 and it prints but lpr and lp don't work.
: >
: >I am looking for an answer.

: Please explain "don't work".  (error log output [/var/log/lpd-errs],
: printcap setting etc.)

: -- 
: cheers, J"org                      private:   joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
:                                    http://www.sax.de/~joerg/

: Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)