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From: alm@netcom.com (Andrew Moore)
Subject: Re: /dev/lp and LARGEW configurations
Message-ID: <40tnz7h.alm@netcom.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 92 02:29:57 GMT
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In article <5717@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP> dri@gl.pitt.edu (Paul) writes:
>I have a quick question about the lp.c patch in the unofficial/terry
>directory on agate.berkeley.edu for 386bsd-0.1.
>
>I have applied the patch to the various files and double checked the
>changes, and when I build a new kernel with the GENERICISA configuration
>I get a reboot after trying to print something to /dev/lp (I did mknod).
>
>More exactly the printer starts to spit out a ROOT banner page and then
>the system softreboots.
I am using Eric Haug's lpt driver, but if you haven't already done
so, you might try recompiling lpd (/usr/src/usr.sbin/lpr/lpd/lpd.c).
Before I did this reboots would occur when printing control characters.
-Andrew Moore <alm@netcom.com>