home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!yale.edu!ira.uka.de!math.fu-berlin.de!unidui!du9ds3!veit
- From: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de (Holger Veit)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: LPT problems in 386BSD - HELP!
- Date: 12 Sep 92 10:20:59 GMT
- Organization: Uni-Duisburg FB9 Datenverarbeitung
- Lines: 23
- Message-ID: <veit.716293259@du9ds3>
- References: <abeech.716211632@kraken>
- Reply-To: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de
- NNTP-Posting-Host: du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de
-
- In <abeech.716211632@kraken> abeech@kraken.itc.gu.edu.au (Adrian Beech) writes:
-
- >Greetings!
-
- >I've installed the lpt patch as suggested by many readers of this group. I
- >now cat print using the `cat <file> >/dev/lpt' command with no problems.
- >However when I use the lpr command all I get is the banner page and then the
- >system falls over. Has anyone else had the same trouble?
-
-
- >--
- >Adrian V. Beech E-MAIL: A.Beech@ext.gu.edu.au
-
- Recompile lpd/lpr. In particular, if you also have done the kvm.c patches
- to make ps running, it is recommended to rebuild all applications that use
- libutil.a (A dozen or so, lpd is one of them).
-
- Holger
- --
- | | / Dr. Holger Veit | INTERNET: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de
- |__| / University of Duisburg | BITNET: veit%du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de@UNIDO
- | | / Dept. of Electr. Eng. | "No, my programs are not BUGGY, these are
- | |/ Inst. f. Dataprocessing | just unexpected FEATURES"
-