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On Sunday 19 February 2006 01:53 pm, maxim wexler wrote: |
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> Then you're part of a dying breed evidently. |
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> I wasn't able to get cups to work so installed lprng. |
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> For more details on my problem go to the archives and |
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> search against my name and 'print' and 'cups' |
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I can't imagine how frustrated you are at this point. |
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If you wouldn't mind, I have some troubleshooting suggestions. It appears that |
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perhaps you might have some problems with the actual printer interface |
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(/dev/lp0), so let's make sure that works well. |
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FIrst, make sure nothing, even lprng, is using /dev/lp0 - shut down lprng and |
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make sure there are no processes left around. |
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Then run the following command: |
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/bin/echo -e -n Hello\\015\\012World\\015\\012\\014 >textfile.txt |
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And finally |
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cat textfile.txt >/dev/lp0 |
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This should print out |
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Hello |
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World |
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followed by a form feed. |
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Unless this works, there's not much use trying to get lprng (or even CUPS) to |
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work. |
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Manuel A. McLure KE6TAW <manuel@××××××.org> <http://www.mclure.org> |
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...for in Ulthar, according to an ancient and significant law, |
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no man may kill a cat. -- H.P. Lovecraft |
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