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- Path: sparky!uunet!ukma!kilroy
- From: kilroy@ms.uky.edu (Paul S. Kilroy)
- Subject: /etc/printcap questions
- Message-ID: <1992Nov6.145353.25444@ms.uky.edu>
- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 19:53:53 GMT
- Organization: Big, Dangerous Ideas, Inc.
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- Hi all,
-
- I have a few questions about /etc/printcap, they are basic
- but please answer them :). What I want to kow is..
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- 1. What programs use this file.
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- 2. Are any of the above programs freely distributable
- if so, know a good place?
-
- 3. My printcap looks like this:
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-
- laser|lp|Canon LBP4|my laser printer:\
- :lp=/dev/ttya:sd=/usr/spool/lpd:lf=/dev/console:sh:1:\
- :br#9600:ms=cs8,-onlcr,ixon,decctlq,-parity:mx#10000:
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- what are /dev/ttya, /dev/console, /usr/spool/lpd
- supposed to be set up for??
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- I dont have a /usr/spool/lpd file, what should it be?
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- thanks very much
-
- paul
-
- --
- -Paul (kilroy@ms.uky.edu)
-