Subject: Re: printer not showing up
From: andrew morgan (morgan@orst.edu)
Date: Tue Jul 11 2000 - 02:13:19 EDT
On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, BWS - Offwhite wrote:
> I have tried what you suggested and ran the following commands...
>
> cd /etc/
> lp -d laser printcap
>
> That results in a page where the text does not show up after the first two
> because the carriage return characters are not in that file. I imagine it
> would like a filter in there, but at least I know it can print now.
>
> Thanks for the help so far.
>
> Now I would like to get the Unix/Netatalk print spooler to show up in the
> MacOS chooser. What do I need to do?
Your papd.conf should look like:
laser:\
:pr=|/usr/bin/lp -d laser:
This creates a printer in the default zone named "laser". It calls the
"lp" program to print. You may need to change the path to "lp".
Andy
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