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- From: bt757@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jeremy Bettis)
- Subject: Re: printer port
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- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 92 00:33:59 GMT
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- In a previous article, me@amiganet.chi.il.us (Corey Sweeney) says:
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- >Hello I'm having a problem with the printer port. if I try date > lp0 it says
- >file creation error. This happened all of a sudden and my print queue has
- >backed up for the last 2 weeks. Any ideas?
- >
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- The two options that ought to work would be: date > /dev/lp0
- -or- date | lp
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- Since the first writes directly to the printer port and the other pipes to the
- print spooler, lp.
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- -Jerbo
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- Jerbo Jehoshaphat (The Dew Drop Inn 402/476-8986 3/12/24 Baud)
- bt757@cleveland.freenet.edu
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