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- From: adrian@ibmpcug.co.uk (Adrian Hall)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: How can I print on my parallel printer?
- Message-ID: <BuB0yD.An3@ibmpcug.co.uk>
- Date: 9 Sep 92 09:27:49 GMT
- References: <colin.716015692@marsh>
- Organization: The IBM PC User Group, UK.
- Lines: 19
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- In article <colin.716015692@marsh> colin@marsh.cs.curtin.edu.au (Colin Manning) writes:
- >Hi,
- > I've applied the patches in unofficial/williams/lpt.*.haug.
- >
- > I still can't print. I have a Panasonic KPX1180 (80 col, 9pin)
- >attached to LPT1. When I boot under DOS (yuk) the printer head jumps about,
- >but I get nothing from 386BSD.
-
- You need to make the /dev/lp and /dev/lpt1 nodes.
-
- mknod /dev/lpt1 c 15 64
- ln -s /dev/lpt1 /dev/lp
-
- Adrian
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