Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] Q: Printing via netatalk to parallel prt on SS10
From: Edan Idzerda (edan@mtu.edu)
Date: Wed Feb 11 1998 - 19:53:54 EST
On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Henrik Andre Wyss Johansen wrote:
> I did have the same problem, i solved the problem by setting pr to the name of
> my printer in the linux printer def. file (printcap i am using RH 4.2).
[ snip ]
> So i think that you shuld set pr to QMS-PS410 and not lpr. Try "pr=QMS-PS410" or "pr=/usr/ucb/QMS-PS410"
Bzzt.
You're lucky that papd printing works out of the box for you with Linux.
Under Solaris 2's lp system, or the LPRng lpr replacement, you can't use the
built-in spool-directory-twiddling routines.
> >QMS-PS410:\
> > :pr=|/usr/ucb/lpr:\
> Why ^ ?
Because the | means "start up /usr/ucb/lpr and pipe the file to be printed
to that program."
I would recommend using 'pr=/path/to/lpr -Pprintername' as its the only
way that's worked for me. That's why its on the web page. But I've only
been skimming this list lately so I may have missed some other detail.
- edan
-- Edan Idzerda <edan@mtu.edu> System Administrator -- Michigan Technological University, Houghton MI USA
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