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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!newsfeed.internetmci.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Okidata printer problem identified :( Date: 13 Apr 1996 00:44:13 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 15 Message-ID: <4kmtct$f8c@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4kk24t$mfr@stout.entertain.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 dwatson@stout.entertain.com (Darryl Watson) writes: > I posted a message asking about info on how to print to an Okidata > 610e/PS printer from freeBSD, and I believe I have found out why the > printer will not work with the spooler daemon: the printer requires bi- > directional communications, and FreeBSD doesn't yet support that option. What does the printer want to tell the computer in return? -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)