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- From: jgrape@coos.dartmouth.edu (Johan A. Grape)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: LPD: no daemon present SOLVED! (I wish)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.165919.29227@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
- Date: 18 Dec 92 16:59:19 GMT
- References: <1992Dec16.072022.21263@netcom.com> <1gre7oINNrch@gap.caltech.edu> <1992Dec18.153521.7462@netcom.com>
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- In article <1992Dec18.153521.7462@netcom.com> qualtrak@netcom.com (Qual Trak) writes:
- >>I still haven't gotten lpd going either with this LaserWriter on ttys2.. I snagged the cable
- >>specs from a local hardware god (he swears they're right) and cat > /dev/ttys2 kinda works
- >>if you keep it small.
- >>
- >>Ideas?
- >>
- >>Here's my entry:
- >>
- >>lp|LaserWriter:\
- >> :br#9600:lp=/dev/ttys2:\
- >> :sd=/usr/spool/lpd: lf=/usr/adm/lpd-errs
- >>--
- >>nyet@cco.caltech.edu
- >try adding a :ms=crtscts to the printcap. I'm not sure what linux
- >wants in the printcap but if it understands the ms entry then you should
- >find that hardware flow control between your linux box and the
- >laserwriter should help considerably.
- >
- >I imagine that on long files it prints a little and then goes catatonic.
- >This would indicate to me that characters were dropped and the PS
- >interpreter displayed an error message and then ignored all subsequent
- >input until receiving a ^D.
- >
- >Just a guess.
- >----- -----
- >John Birchfield - QualTrak Corp (408) 730-2674 Home (408) 736-3852
- >jb@QualTrak.COM
- >----- -----
- >
- >
- My setup is exactly the same as above, and I have the same problems.
-
- The laserwriter does software flow control, and the printer
- daemon certainly should to...? When I cat to my laserwriter on ttys2,
- I get a printout of the first three pages or so, and then nothing, and
- then the printer finally times out (lights stop blinking). However,
- I would think that lpd takes care of software flow control?
-
- On the other hand, lpd doesn't drop a thing down ttys2. Not a page,
- not a bit, nada..... I used to have a problem that lpr couldn't
- connect, but after getting /etc/hosts.lpr sorted out, this error
- message never occurs. The stuff is spooled, and the daemon never finds
- the serial port, or somesuch. I never get error messages in my lf= file.
-
- I have discovered a socket called PRINTER in /dev, but that is all. I don't
- know the internals of lpd, and I can't figure this out....
-
- Does anyone have a serial printer working with the BSD lpr port?????
-
- Thankst'y'all
- Johan
-