Subject: RE: Need some help with printing on a LaserWriter IIg
From: Lancaster, David Matthew (c4ng2@unb.ca)
Date: Wed Jun 07 2000 - 07:53:41 EDT
David Lancaster (506) 454-2167
690 Gregg Ct. Upper Apartment
Fredericton, NB Canada E3B 4H5
c4ng2@unb.ca "Don't anthropomorphize computers, they hate that."
> If that isn't it, then maybe this note from the psf(8) manpage is
> relevant:
> Note that if the host in question spools to more than one AppleTalk
> printer, /dev/null should not be used for the lp capability. Instead,
> a null device should be created with mknod for each printer, as has been
> done above.
Oops, forgot to mention that point...but if you're only using one printer,
it "shouldn't" be a problem (course, if I had a dollar for every time I
said that...)
> You can create a null device in your spool directory with the following
> command:
>
> mknod /var/spool/lpd/LaserWriterIIg/null c 1 3
>
> You may need to fiddle with the permission bits on the null device (666
> maybe?).
>
> Andy
Only a null of evil Darth?
D.
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