I uncommented the line in /etc/printcap and changed it to tty01, however I
get the following while trying to start lpc:

unixgeek: {44} lpc start all
lp:
lpc: connect: No such file or directory
        couldn't start daemon

To answer your question, yes it appears to be a normal dot-matrix printer.

I take this space to apologize to the list for sending a duplicate
message. pine was acting up ;)

Thanks,

Josh

On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, Frederick Bruckman wrote:

> On Tue, 9 Jun 1998, Joshua E Hope wrote:
> 
> > I recently acquired a pretty old PC printer, an "Epson ActivePrinter
> > 1000". I went out and spent about $30 (more than the cost of the printer
> > itself) to buy an adapter and a cable (using one of those Mac DB-8 to
> > DB-29 with a gender changer since the port on the back of the printer is
> > foreign to me). It is all hooked up and everything...
> > 
> > I'm not sure if this is going to work. I need to know in about 9 days, so
> > I know wether or not to take the cable/adapter back to their respective
> > stores. 
> > 
> > Anyway, how do you configure and use a printer in NetBSD? Will this one
> > work or not?
> 
> This is a plain old, dot matrix, line printer? A simple test would be to
> check the box in the booter that echoes the console to the printer port. 
> For normal use, uncomment the "lp" entry in /etc/printcap, changing the
> /dev/lp to /dev/tty01, then type
> 
> 	# lpc start all
> 	# lpr anytxtfile
> 
> If that works, change the appropriate line in /etc/rc.conf to lpd=YES.
> 
>