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From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: BSDI and Printers
Date: 26 Mar 1996 13:33:28 GMT
Organization: interface business GmbH, Dresden
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Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de (Joerg Wunsch)
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christie@dragon.achilles.net (Tate Christie) writes:

> I have a dot-matrix on lp0 and when I try
> 
> ls -l | /dev/lp0
> 
> I get a permission denied - I am doing this as root

What do you expect from executing a printer? :-)

ls -l > /dev/lp0

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J"org Wunsch					       Unix support engineer
joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de       http://www.interface-business.de/~j