Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] unknown printer
From: Abel Deuring (A.DEURING@BIONIC.zerberus.de)
Date: Wed Sep 30 1998 - 20:00:00 EDT
Herzog@ite.rwth-aachen.de wrote
> The printcap entry looks like this:
> apple:\
> :sd=/usr/spool/apple:\
> :lp=/dev/null:\
> :of=/usr/local/atalk/etc/filters/ofpap:\
> :sh:sf:
>
> Of course, /usr/spool/apple exists and ofpap and psf are where they are
> supposed to be.
> When I try "lpr -Papple testfile", I get the message
> "lpr: apple: unknown printer".
>
> What did I wrong?
Perhaps you have immediately before the line "apple:\" a line
ending with a backslash in your printcap file? (Some months ago I
had the same phenomenon - it tooks me days to find the error just
described...)
Abel
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