Hi Patrick Welche,

[...]
> Just to set the scene, is your printer connected to the parallel port
> (if so there were problems but I thought Mark fixed them), and what is
> your printcap file?

The answer is (no NOT 42) YES, it is connected to the parallel port.
I tried two HP printers, a HP 500 DeskJet which prints nicely under
RISC OS and a HP LaserJet-5L, which as well does a very good job
under RISC OS.

Here's an excerpt from my /etc/printcap file, which seems fine AFAIK,
but fails to work as RiscBSD complains about lpt0 being offline.

#	$NetBSD: printcap,v 1.3 1996/05/08 17:19:45 thorpej Exp $
#	@(#)printcap	5.3 (Berkeley) 6/30/90

# lp|local line printer:\
# 	:lp=/dev/lpa0:sd=/var/spool/lpd:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:

# HP Laser Jet 5L
lp|hplj|HP Laser Jet 5 L:\
	:lp=/dev/lpt0:\
	:sd=/usr/spool/lpt:\
	:mx#0:\
	:of=/usr/spool/lpt/hpjlp:\
	:lf=/usr/spool/lpt/hp-log:sh:


> Patrick

Regards,
Rainer
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