Re: printing printcap

Hello Wayne, On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Wayne Topa wrote: > > Subject: printing printcap > Date: Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 02:35:52PM -0500 > > In reply to:Debian Mail > > Quoting Debian Mail([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Hello, > > Debian ghost here... have a q

Re: printing printcap

Subject: printing printcap Date: Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 02:35:52PM -0500 In reply to:Debian Mail Quoting Debian Mail([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hello, > Debian ghost here... have a question about printing via debian. > I ran the magicfilterconfig and set up a laser jet print

Re: printing printcap

Hi, Thanks for the reply! Feel I am getting closer to working, but still can't understand what I am doing wrong. If lpr can't print binary files (say a photograph) what else can? > 1) Check you have lpd running on both machines. > ps auxw | grep -i lpd | grep -v grep ghost:~

Re: printing printcap

Hello Stephen and all, Thanks for the replies... Printing is still not working yet. > As Randal Schwartz would say, unnecessary use of cat, for one thing. What is a better way to test lpr? > lpr funny Is there a better print spooler? I take it from the man pages that lpr can't even print binar

Re: printing printcap

Hey Guys and Gals, DGhost here. Thanks for replying so far. It was asked if lpd was running and it is: Is it normal to have a child process of lpd when usig the -l switch? root 11493 1 0 10:34 ?00:00:00 /usr/sbin/lpd -l root 11494 11493 0 10:34 ?00:00:00 /usr/sbin/lp

Re: printing printcap

Hello there, On Sat, 19 Aug 2000, s. keeling wrote: > On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 02:35:52PM -0500, Debian Mail wrote: > > Hello, > > Debian ghost here... have a question about printing via debian. > > I ran the magicfilterconfig and set up a laser jet printer on the lan. > > I think I have this thin

Re: printing printcap

On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 02:35:52PM -0500, Debian Mail wrote: > Hello, > Debian ghost here... have a question about printing via debian. > I ran the magicfilterconfig and set up a laser jet printer on the lan. > I think I have this thing correct, but I get an error when I try to send > anything to t

printing printcap

Hello, Debian ghost here... have a question about printing via debian. I ran the magicfilterconfig and set up a laser jet printer on the lan. I think I have this thing correct, but I get an error when I try to send anything to the printer. from printcap: lp|ljet|Lazer Jet:\ :lp=:sd=/var/sp